Crazy, Stupid Love.

(c) Warner Bros. Pictures 2011

So Eunice and I watched a movie in my laptop last night

We loved it. Why? Because of Ryan Gosling.

I kid! It was because of Emma Stone.

Okay, so it was both their beautiful faces.

To be honest, it was that kind of movie that made you gag several times. The kind of movie where you're left thinking, how in the world does a story like this ever exist in reality? But it had the kind of plot that made you want to finish it to connect the dots wavin' at your brain.

As to the lesson of the story, let's see... It was about fighting for your soul-mates, rediscovering yourself after separation, seeing that love is more than just skin-deep, and all that shizz. A little cliche-sounding, don't you think?

Well, as I thought about it, the movie does more make sense than most in some places. What's striking about it, compared to other similarly sappy movies are these:

• Even if everything goes wrong along the way, even when there seems to be no hope, you will always fall back to the one who was made for you. (I've seen this happen in real life.)
• Sometimes, it takes for everything to go wrong that will force you to stand at a distance far enough for you to see clearly. Then you realize a truckload of things. (More than one truck sometimes, if you ask me.)
• Don't say things as you think they are and insist that it's all they will ever be, ever. 'Cause having to eat your words is a pretty nasty thing to do. (Trust me on this.)
• Lastly, it takes time. (Don't give a thirteen-year-old boy questionable paraphernalia though, that is just sick. *Blech*)

Haha this scene was really kind of, stupid.

I'm in love with this verse in the chapter of love in the Word. It goes like this:

"We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all clearly as God sees us, knowing Him directly as he knows us." ~ 1 Cor 13:12 (MSG) 

Love ain't crazy nor is it ever really stupid. We grow in it, we learn it, and everyday we will see more clearly. The best way to do it, is to learn from the One created it, the One who IS LOVE (1 Jn 4:8).  Not just learn from Him, receive unconditional heaps of that from Him too because He sees us in love, even when we don't deserve it. Now doesn't that make you want to love Him back?

We may fall down here and there, but get up and keep on going.

Happy Sunday! Haha
~Ella :)