I recently watched the newest animated film from Disney, "Frozen". I wasn't really interested with it at first, but I've been hearing comments, reading Facebook statuses and receiving persuasions from friends that the movie is great and that I should watch it. Since I’m more of a fan of animated films, I gave it a try and watched it with my sister (because a friend told me that I should watch it with her because the plot is basically about two sisters hehe).
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| Frozen!!! ♥ |
The movie is a good one… So good that it inspired me to write this blog post haha! :) One thing that I really liked about the movie is how they defined “true love”. It was Olaf (the living quirky snowman) who said that true love is “when you put someone else’s needs before your own.” True love is not just about couples, like what they have shown in the movie. True love can also be expressed between family members like when Anna saved her ice queen sister Elsa for being killed at the expense of her own life. They thought that Anna will be saved by having that “true love’s kiss” because they thought (and she was convinced) that it is an act of true love, but it was her “sacrificial act” for her sister that saved her from being frozen for the rest of her life. To make it simpler… True love is equals to sacrificial love.
I kind of can relate to the character of Anna. Not that I can easily fall in-love and can marry a man whom I just met, but in the sense of how she thinks she will meet her “the one”. I think like that before... I’m sure that a lot of ladies out there would think that maybe she will meet her “the one” in a gathering and they will have that instant connection because they have the same wavelength, or because he can finish the sentence that she started, or simply because he can make her laugh so easily. There is nothing wrong with these, but I think it is wrong to conclude that just because you can easily connect with each other, and you like the person and the person liked you back, then this must be “true love”.
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| Oh it must be true love! (Naahh...) |
True love is equals to sacrificial love, and sacrificial love is more than just having the same likes and dislikes, or you can feel "butterflies in your stomach" when he/she is near or having that same connection… It’s more of a decision. I remember the scene in the movie when Anna had to choose between Kristoff (her “true love”) and her sister Elsa—she chose to save her sister over her “true love’s kiss”. She decided to make that sacrifice. She decided.
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| Hug!!! |
In this I remembered my grandparents in my father’s side. My grandma just celebrated her 100th birthday last July but last week she already left us and I believe she is now with the Lord. And I ponder about her marriage with my grandpa who is now around 98 years old. They must have made lots of sacrifices for each other to make their marriage work until death do them part. Then last Sunday, one of my aunts from my father’s side again, Auntie Vilma, celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary with her husband, Uncle Rey. It must have been 50 years of sacrifices, too! And tomorrow is my parents’ wedding anniversary! For that, 28 years of sacrifices (and counting)! Sacrifice can be defined as,
“the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.” Sacrifice of time, of effort, of money, of your right to speak your mind or even your right to remain silent (haha!) etc. for the one you love. You have to decide before you can make a sacrifice. So then true love is a decision, not just an emotion.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. -1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (now that is a lot of sacrifice)
There are people who asked me if I’m ready to be in a relationship, or if I’m ready to fall in-love. Actually, I don’t know. And who knows but only God. And how will I know? Or do I really have to know that now? Because it's always easier to say "I am ready" or even "I am not". Maybe I will know when that time comes when I have to decide. When? That I do not know (and I think I don't have to know). :) But somehow I think you are ready for love when you are already willing to make sacrifices. I have tons of crushes (ok I'm exaggerating), but my frozen heart is reserved to melt for that one person, who maybe will make me sing ♫ For the first time in foreveeerrr!!! ♫ (hahaha! ok, enough of this)
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| ♫ For the first time in foreveeerrr ♫ |
But of course the greatest display of sacrificial love of all is when Jesus died for us. :) Someone can sacrifice his/her time, effort, resources etc. for you but no one can surpass this True Love in its truest form! ♥
6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. -Romans 5: 6-8
