love & other (godly) drugs

so i was watching the movie love and other drugs for the second time tonight and after i finished watching it, i shut my laptop, got out my quiet time material and prepared to talk to god. being the closeted romantic that i am, i started to share with Him what i liked from that movie and what i didn't like, secretly hoping that He is filing all of this information in his "sarah's future husband" box for me later ...

and then lightning struck. i remembered a couple lines VIVIDLY from the last scene in the movie and i heard god speaking to me. i reopened my laptop, rewound the video to where i wanted, grabbed my journal and a pen and started writing the dialogue out ...

maggie: i'm going to need you more than you need me.

jamie: that's ok.

maggie: no it's not! it isn't fair! i have places to go ...

jamie: you'll go there ... i just may have to carry you.

maggie: i can't ask you to do that.

jamie: you didn't

tears started forming as the realization of what god was saying to me hit my closeted blonde brain: "sarah, you never asked me to be a part of your life when i died for you, when i decided to create you ... i did it anyways. i love you despite your weaknesses. nothing you say will ever scare me away from loving you."

dear reader, i hope you put your name in there instead of mine because that is TRULY god's heart for you and for me. no matter where you are in life or what you've done or haven't done, god is SO in love with you, for you, not for what you can do but for you at your very core and soul. and no one can love you the way this man can.

next time you're watching a movie or reading a book or taking a walk in nature or basically doing whatever you enjoy doing, i challenge you to listen for his voice. he may surprise you because i can tell you, he surely surprised me! i was not looking to hear his voice watching this movie and yet, plain as day, HE was there. he can reach you WHEREVER you are at through WHATEVER means he wants. you are never far from his grasp.