So tonight I watch the romance movie The Longest Ride, and even though this tear-jerking chic flick isn't necessarily a film I'd want added to my repertoire of monumental pieces in a biography, it still made some very important points that have resonated with me..

1. Love doesn't exist without sacrifice. With two love stories going on at the same time, the theme of the movie was that the idea of a perfect love becomes genuine, true love in the face of sacrifice. And that's really what love is all about, right? Putting the wants and needs of someone else above your own. The movie portrayed it beautifully, but living it in real life is obviously more challenging than communicating it through a fiction lifetime romance squeezed into an hour and a half. Looking back, I'd like to think I characterized a sacrificial love in the relationships I've been in, and I know my parents always have with me, and of course it's necessary to reference Jesus and His sacrificial love because honestly that's the greatest love story ever told. Now, going forward, for whatever relationships lie ahead, it is this point that I'd like to return to and remind myself of when the going gets tough (before they get going, ha.)

2. Betting on the most important things to you is much more rewarding than betting on what everyone says should be important. At the end of the movie, the painting that means the most to Ira (the fairy god mother reincarnated into an old man who loved his wife more than anything... who loved art more than anything) affords the one person who bet on it the entire multi-million dollar collection. To me, this meant that the things that mean the most to you, that you hold closest to your heart that you are so grateful for because of that one time that one thing happened that makes you see the good in the world, that is what's worth all the millions.

3. Also, Scott Eastwood is beyond dreamy. God Bless. That is all.