Of Obedience and Love

Locks of Love in Paris

I happened to catch Legends of the Fall on cable this evening. It was uncanny because I had just thought about Brad Pitt. I rarely watch TV, and I can't remember the last time they played that movie. When was it made? 1994. Creepy stuff. The moment I talk about someone or dream about them I see them in a movie...weird. A couple of scenes at the end of that movie always bring tears to my eyes. It did then, and it still does now. 

When the 2 brothers buried the one woman that had come between all 3 of them, and the elder one said to Brad (the middle defiant one), "I obeyed every rule, that of God and of man's, and you broke every single one of them. Yet they still loved you more than they loved me." I asked myself that same question but rephrased. Why do people who break life's rules still turn out with every wish of theirs granted? 

For Brad’s character, it was simply because he loved with his heart...he loved from his heart and he loved passionately and obsessively to the point of compulsion. Maybe that was why he found it in him to break every possible rule that conflicted with that love inside him... But for my own question...honestly I do not know why life's disobedient members succeed abundantly. I guess I should probably add it to the long list of questions you may get to ask God when you see Him. Like the song says, "What if God was one of us...what would you ask him?" 

I will ask Him this.