True heroines

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I think, so many times in my life I have watched a movie or read a book and missed the point.  Okay, so far I can only think of two, but if I realise now that I missed the point with these two, imagine all the wasted effort on God's part for the others.  

Spanglish showed on e-TV tonight, featuring Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni.  The woman that acts as a Spanish maid and can hardly speak English is the quiet person, though passionate, while Tea plays the talkative and loud wife.  Tea's role, Deborah, is so painful that you get to dislike her despite her beauty and her fit body.  Instead the inner fight going on inside the Spanish maid is far greater of an inspiration than the outer battle of the wife.  

It became clear to me the righteousness for which she fought by bringing in sobriety when temptations started to ebb.  She fled from any potential sin.  She broke that awkward silence.  She kept things real.  I admired her quietude about which she went about her work, but the fortitude with which she fought for her own purity and for righteousness in all situations.  She played the silent heroine in this movie, full of life and vigor.  

Why I didn't notice her so much before was most likely because my attention was not on the quiet and meek person.  I paid far more attention to the loud one.  And so the trend remained in my reading, where I looked at Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind as the heroine, when in actual fact it was Melanie that had far greater strength than Scarlett.  

I just hope and pray that these human examples hold just as much stead as others, more real examples.  Movies are wonderful to teach morals, but it is in life that they count.  I just wish I could overcome that which holds me back from living my life with a fight for righteousness.  It is tiring not to give in.  I don't have a daughter to consider.  What I do have is a life, this one life, and if not directed, can go astray.  

For too long have I admired the loud and boastful, the striving and ambitious, when it is often the quiet and kind, the meek and lonely, that are better examples to follow.   I want to live for more than myself.   

It is not often that a movie can speak to me as though God Himself had come down to teach me this lesson, and I didn't learn the lesson before, when I watched it, but it sure was good to hear from Him again.

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