Hope

Yesterday I left work early to see Twilight with two of my favorite ladies, Aletha and Baa. I was super excited after reading the book to see the movie. Who can resist a little vampire love? And as I was driving and listening to the radio, the dj started talking about new research that suggested that romantic comedies are harmful to women. I have heard this all before… false ideas of love and romance that are impossible in real life. One article I read previously even suggested that romantic comedies are as dangerous to women as porn is to men – Unrealistic view of romance vs. unrealistic view of the female body and sex. Hhhmmmm…

Now, I love me some romantic comedies. And I love vampire love stories. I love any kind of love story. I know that most of them are just that – stories. They are not real and probably could never be real. After all, we live in a broken world that is incapable of pure love . But this will not keep me from watching them. There is power in story. There is hope in watching love conquer all. Joy in watching good trounce evil. Even if the good is the good girl getting the guy and the evil is in the form of misunderstanding.

When it comes down to it, I love story. Because, after all, a well-crafted story is about hope. Yes, the story we read or see today may be unrealistic for the time we live in, but one day our story, the world’s story, will have an end. Love will conquer all, because, after all, God wins, love wins. So in the meantime I am going to keep on watching my romantic comedies and reading the Twilight series and living in the already not here space. I am going to cling to hope in any form I can find.