Twilight Shmilight

My wife was babysitting last night so I went to see Twilight. You may ask why? I had to ask myself that with in about 10 minutes of enduring a boring, give me a break no one can look that pale, I wish something exciting would happen movie. One of the main reasons I went is that I like chick flicks. Yes I’m a hopeless romantic but please let there be a good plot, great characters and avoid all the incredible dysfunction. UnfortunatelyI was surely let down. On top of that I didn’t do a good job researching the target audience. The theater was packed with young teenage to college age girls. I think I counted five guys out of 200 people and the other four either hadn’t hit puberty yet or were zombies drag by thier nose ring or were on a first date and had no idea what they had gotten themselves into.

Okay the spiritual application: God has created every woman to be nurtured and protected and it’s obvious that this movie scratches every single possible school girl DNA itch. It didn’t matter that the movie was bad, it didn’t matter if it was vampires who some how had morals, it didn’t matter that Bella was willing to become one of the undead. What mattered was the longing to be wanted, rescued and adored. If you have those elements a women will spend 8 to 10 dollars multiple times to live in an unrealistic fantasy world in hope of someone being all that and a bag of chips.

There is a sense of sadness when I think about all those young women last night. If they would take the energy and passion they have to connect with that longing of being wanted and search for Jesus all those itches would get scratched. God has sent a rescuer-er, hero and lover of their souls. The reality of Christ is only one word, one prayer, one sincere thought away.

God bless those twinners.