On the other hand, we have the young couples who really only know what they're doing from the movies and end up looking like fools by fighting all the time... no matter who's around. This bugs me even more sometimes because it just makes me wonder: really... THIS is what you think a relationship should look like? In fact, it is not uncommon to see some small whiny girl and her 6-foot tall boyfriend fighting on the street. Sometimes she will hit him. Sometimes she will yell at him. Or sometimes she will simply walk with her arms crossed, like "You know what you did to upset the queen, and now you must PAY with your dignity!" And these guys! They just stand there and take it! I often want to just shake them and yell to them: Have just a little self respect; you don't have to take it! And of course there is the flip side of things and you see once in awhile (although less frequently) the guys that treat their girlfriends like crap (again, in public!) And it makes me sad.
It makes me sad because relationships are a gift! They are meant to bring comfort, joy, and love, to sharpen and refine, and they are ultimately to magnify the awesome relationship of God. It makes me so sad that the young people in this country take something that is supposed to be a beautiful gift, and they trash it by reducing it to some cheap imitation of some dramatic scene from a movie. I wonder though if I am guilty of that same thing sometimes. I wonder if I often take something that is supposed to be beautiful by HIS standards, and I reduce it and trash it by trying to make it more like the world's. Whether it's relationships, talents, my life, or just ME- all things are made beautiful (and worthwhile) by submitting them to HIM. In His grip, there's a beauty that the world cannot offer; but it is also a gift that the world can never take away!
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