Sunday, January 18, 2009
Karen Kingsbury and Francine Rivers are jointly making it really hard for me to fall in love. Haha. Ironic, isn't it? Well, actually, maybe it isn't. Because reading their romance,
true love has different meanings. It's deeper, more special. And it's centred on God. A cord of
three strands is not easily broken.
Redemption taught me that real love is a decision. A decision and a promise and a vow that you can
never break,
til death do us part. In Four Christmases, what's-his-name and Reese Witherspoon talked about not wanting to marry and all, because "there's a reason they call it 'tying the knot' and all that 'til death do us part' thing sounds terrible."
But how shallow, how absolutely weak that kind of love is! Kari Baxter's love is so different, choosing to stand by her husband EVEN after she found out about his affair, EVEN after he told her he didn't love her, wasn't sorry and wanted a divorce, EVEN after he broke her heart and moved in with his mistress.
Even after he broke her heart, she kept on loving him. Not because she was weak, but because she was strong. Because her love wasn't JUST a feeling, but a decision. A commitment and a promise.
*shakes head* And that love - of God, of her husband, allowed her to walk away from the guy she had loved since she was young, who stole her heart at 12 and never gave it back. Who was back, and was available, but she didn't give in to sin even though her husband had, because God was with her and she knew it was wrong.
I don't think I could be that strong. Love is awfully hard, I think.
And then there's
Echo in the Darkness. If I could find a fault with these two authors, it's that their heroes and heroines are always gorgeous-looking. Well, I suppose it's also because they're always described through the ones who love them, so they'd look beautiful to them anyway. But still.
Anyway, so the (fabulously hot, extremely rich) guy with whom the heroine has long fallen in love with has fallen in love with her and told her he loves her and asks her to marry him. And she says
No.
She says no, because God has said, and she knows it true, that one cannot yoke themself to an unbeliever. Let us remember this is a SUPER GORGEOUS LOOKING strong, sexy guy (we know this because there's this whole other horde of girls after him, whom he rejects for her). And, he loves her and she loves him.
But, love
isn't enough. Not until God's love is in the picture.
*shakes head*
Anyway, going back to reading
Ever After now. :) Haha.
Posted by nayrakroarual at 10:01 PM
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