The movie may not teach some great upstanding, noteworthy lesson, but I think it helps the viewers cherish the people in our lives even more, which may be even more valuable than a noteworthy lesson. Lessons are forgetten, but after experiencing that movie, I don't think I could ever forget to appreciate another person who is close to me.
If you've read my blog for any number of days, you know that falling in love in the future is something for which I dearly hope. I want to fall in love, and I want to experience that love to the fullest measure I can. But if I had to experience the kind of love that Clare, the wife in the movei, experiences, I don't know what I would do. At the end, relief washed over me that I will never have to experience that. True, I won't know when my husband is going to die or that I will give birth to a child as Clare found in the movie, but I think the only person who should be able to know those things is God. And I think God doesn't want to tell us all those details because they would be too overwhelming for us. Part of me does want to know those things, but they are better left in God's hands.
Our last reading assignment in American Literature was to read a set of poems written by William Carlos Williams. I had never heard of Williams before this assignment, and as I began reading the poems I wondered if the man was mentally okay when he wrote them. But then I came to his last poem. The name of it was "The Ivy Crown." This is the poem.
Please read it. It's beautiful. I think I've read it nine times. I don't know what prompted Williams to write it, but that is the kind of love I want. The poem mentions a line that says, "I love you or I do not live at all." I want to find that person who I won't be able to live without; that getting out of bed everyday won't be worth it unless that person is alive. I must clarify, of course, that God makes every day worth while, and I know that it doesn't matter if I never meet than man because God will always be enough. But that part of me still exists that wants that intimacy with another human being. God created that in me, and I would be lying to say that didn't exist.
At the very end of the poem, it says that love is past all accident. That is so true. Thank goodness God orchestrates our love lives, our careers, everything about us. I'm just so blessed knowing God already has someone out there for me. I don't have to worry about how long it will be until I find him or how long I will spend with him. I have a great faith that all in God's timing I will be blessed beyond my wildest dreams.
This poem shows me that even though hard times come, we work through them and we will our way through the briars. God brings people into our lives, and we should appreciate them, love them and be as intentional as we can with them. We never know when they could be taken from us. I want this poem read at my wedding. I may change my thoughts by then, but right now, I'm thankful for the lesson it teaches me.
Please read the poem, and please watch the movie. I never thought I would feel so strongly about a movie or a poem, but God can use anything he wants, can't he?
Well, until we next meet.
2 comments:
I read the poem and can see the attraction to it, although I have never done much studying of poems and have a hard time understanding them. (I'm sure I will learn a lot more about poems as I homeschool the boys.)
When I was younger, I also wanted to find and dreamed of finding the one I could not live without. Somehow, as time passed, I realized the only one I should not be able to live without is Jesus. Now, I know I would have an extremely hard time getting by without my husband...extremely hard. I would probably wish, for a while, that I could die too (if he were to die first). But deep in my heart of hearts, I know that Jesus is the ONLY way I could get through it. He is the only one who is always there for me and who will never let me down. Everyone else is fallible and will, at some point, die.
I know you know all of this but thought I would throw it out there for a different perspective:). I'll have to rent that movie.
Love you!
Beautiful post.
...don't ever give up hoping for that Prince Charming, but you're right to hold on to your relationshp with God tighter & higher than your hope of a husband.
My best friend got married in January, still a virgin, still a beautiful woman...two months away from her 40th birthday.
My husband was 35 when we married. Both of them had been waiting for a long time...but God has reasons and His plan is so much greater and more beautiful than we could ever imagine!
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