That love is really what makes this film worthwhile. To be sure the acting is first rate, as you would expect from Redford, Mirren and Dafoe. The thriller aspect is well done, but still not really special. But to be able to watch as Wayne and Eilene’s love becomes more manifest as the crisis wears on provides a much deeper understanding of love than most films
give us.
Indeed, we discover as we watch just how precious love can be even in times of separation and crisis - perhaps especially in times of separation and crisis. It could be that Wayne and Eilene rarely thought about the love they
shared on a day to day basis. But in the trouble that comes upon them, that love sustains them in ways they would never suspect. --Darrel Manson
ON LOVE
A motion to adjourn is always in order.
--Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), Lazarus Long: Time Enough For Love
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
--Tom Lehrer
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
--Walt Disney (1901 - 1966)
When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!
--Laurie Anderson
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
--Rita Rudner
We may become quite comfortable with the ways God in manifest in our lives. We may rarely spend time thinking specifically about God's love for us and our love for God. But still that love exists and grows. When crisis comes into our lives, we may at first be overwhelmed by a sense of separation - God seems to be away from us. But as we move through those times of
strife, that love may be the most essential thing as it sustain us and bring us again nearer to God. Gods love is not so much tested by adversity, rather it is more fully discovered.
--Darrel Manson
LOVING IS BASIC
(adapted from Concise Theology Copyright 1993 by Foundation for Reformation)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7
New Testament Christianity is essentially response to the revelation of the Creator as a God of love. God is a tripersonal Being who so loves ungodly humans that the Father has given the Son, the Son has given his life, and Father and Son together now give the Spirit to save sinners from unimaginable misery and lead them into unimaginable glory. Believing in and being overwhelmed by this amazing reality of divine love generates and sustains the love to God and neighbor that Christ’s
two great commandments require (Matt. 22:35-40). Our love is to express our gratitude for God’s gracious love to us, and to be modeled on it (Eph. 4:32-5:2; 1 John 3:16).
The hallmark of Christian life is thus Christian love. The measure and test of love to God is wholehearted and unqualified obedience (1 John 5:3; John 14:15, 21, 23); the measure and test of love to our neighbors is laying down our lives for them (1 John 3:16; cf. John 15:12-13). This sacrificial love involves giving, spending, and impoverishing ourselves up to the limit for their well-being. Jesus’ story of the Samaritan’s kindness to the hated Jew stands as his model definition
of neighbor-love (Luke 10:25-37).
Neighbor-love is profiled in 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. Its total lack of self-concern is breathtaking. Neighbor-love seeks the neighbor’s good, and the true measure of it is how much it gives to that end.
Love is a principle of action rather than of emotion. It is a purpose of honoring and benefiting the other party. It is a matter of doing things for people out of compassion for their need, whether or not we feel personal affection for them. It is by their active love to one another that Jesus’ disciples are to be recognized (John 13:34-35).
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