Life-teen update (08-05-2007)

Friday Night Flix: This past week we watched The Princess Bride. As much as I like to look for various evil media messages mixed into an otherwise wholesome movie, Princess Bride really lets me down. I have always felt, and still feel, that this is a great piece of wholesome family entertainment. For those of you who haven’t seen it, The Princess Bride is a classic love tale involving an evil prince, pirates, revenge, and most of all true love. I suppose if I really wanted to get picky about the movie I could point out that Inigo is obsessed with revenge, which is never a good thing, but that is about it. Of course This doesn’t include all the bad things that the bad guys do, but over all even those are relentlessly mocked and are not admired by anyone other then the bad guys themselves. There are no affairs, no flings, no sleeping with each other out of wedlock, no lies, and none of the many other things that our society considers perfectly normal in love story, and that is just from your main hero or heroine. The Princess Bride portrays love as something that is long lasting and enduring. Westley even says that seath cannot stop love. As cheesy and romantic as that may sound, he is right. God is love, and death itself could not stop his Son. True love has already conquered death and it can conquer anything that we may experience in our lives, if we let it. As St Augustine once said, “love, and do what you will.” If we do everything out of a sincere love, we will never go wrong. The hard part is discovering what love really is. Pop culture tells a lot about what they think love should be, but they are usually wrong. For one thing true love has to know the truth. God is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. True love must, by necessity, begin and end with him. Anything less God is less than true love, and who ever dreams about finding that?