What role does Destiny play in your love
life – and where do you stand on these
questions?
It’s something to think about!
Destiny is that moment in “The Notebook”
when Allie sees the picture of Noah in
the newspaper – and faints dead away while
trying on her wedding gown. (Her mom sees
the picture, too, and says, “Oh, no.”)
Destiny is many things – including the magical
events that bring us together – sometimes
repeatedly – with a person we’re meant to
be with.
Thoughts of destiny, choice, and love bring
to mind one of my favorite movies, which I
highly recommend if you’ve never seen it -
“Moonstruck” with Cher, Nicolas Cage, and
many other great actors.
“Moonstruck” is a breath of fresh air – such
a sweet, charming, funny, and passionate movie,
so beautifully photographed; a movie that is
all the more precious with some age (released
in 1987).
The family members who live in the Brooklyn
house in “Moonstruck” are all longing for love
in some way. Even the widowed grandfather
bestows all of his love on five appreciative
mutts. Some in the family are seeking love in
the wrong place, whether they know it yet or not.
Cher plays Loretta, the main character, a widow
who thinks that she created bad luck in her
first marriage by certain fateful choices.
She thinks that if she does everything right
now, her upcoming marriage will have the luck
that eluded her the first time – her first
husband got hit by a bus after only a few
years of marriage.
Loretta is newly engaged to a middle-aged
mama’s boy whom she doesn’t love.
But love is the farthest thing from this
bride-to-be’s mind. She’s focused on luck.
What happens? Destiny changes everything.
She falls in love with the “wrong” man,
even though that’s not in her plans at all,
nor does she want it to be in her plans!
It’s not that easy for Loretta to come
to grips with her entire view of love.
We can choose a lot of things, but we
can’t choose who we love!
I know, “love is a choice,” but feelings
are feelings, and choices are choices!
These are intertwined in each of us
as we write our own life script.
And then there’s destiny.
Destiny is a combination of two things. It’s
what you don’t create, combined with what
you’re ready for.
Destiny is opportunity and readiness
combined. The opportunities WILL come
your way, so will you be ready for them?
I know there are people who believe in
luck, and we’re all a little superstitious,
whether or not we even notice it, even
those of us who do not believe in such
things!
Destiny is in our hands. We create our own Destiny.
Life is what you make it.
From Mimi Tanner
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