The problem with most of the relationships in Heights is that, although they are romantic, although there is desire, none of them seem to truly know love. Few of the characters look out for others; most of them have themselves at the top of their list. Truth is not a requirement and neither is commitment. Often, the only requirement seems to be the inability to believe in anything better. The characters know that love is not there. They show this hole in their lives through their sadness, confusion, loneliness, and longing for something more. They long for something more and something better, because thankfully, beyond confusion, stand-alone desire, and inadequate motivations, there is something better.
While Diane does not exactly have a stellar record with relationships, as a mother, she does not want Isabel to settle for anything but the best. She knows that we need love and she does not want her daughter to live without it. In the same way, God, a father who cares about us more than we can imagine, does not want us to fill our lives with relationships based on and defined by anything other than true love.
Although God created desire within us, desire is only part of the relationships he hopes for us to fill our lives with. In the same way that his love for us is sacrificial, selfless, honest, and patient, in same way that his love seeks, hopes, and perseveres with us through anything and towards lives of meaning, purpose, and value, God desires the bonds we form with those around us to strive for nothing less. God did not fill us with a desire for love for no reason. He filled us with that desire that we might seek genuine love and seek to genuinely love others.
As we seek lives of purpose, meaning, and value, it only makes sense that relationships that are truly good, relationships that are actually based on love, will not just be, but live to pursue, grow, and forward that life of purpose and meaning together, building each other up, helping each other grow, and remembering to share the love that God gives to us every day with those around us. As a man Isabel meets at her mother’s party says to her, neither God nor us wants to look back on our relationships and lives and regretfully wonder, what happened? God wants us to be able to look at our lives and our relationships and know that what is happening is love.
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