I love great love stories!! I mean who doesn’t, but this weekend as I looked for a good tear-jerker to watch with my friend I wondered why I liked movies that made me cry. I realized that it’s because they are usually the ones with the greatest love stories. When the characters have to go through everything in order to be with the one they love it tells a story of the extent of their love. I think I like these tear jerkers because it shows how strong some love is. So strong that it’s worth the heartache, and I want to know that that kind of love exists. And yet it does. Jesus showed us that Great love when He died on the cross for us. He is the greatest love story of all time, but are we making it even better. There are those sad stories where one character loves the other, and goes through everything to show it, and they are amazing, but they always end with tears of sadness because the one who deserves the love doesn’t get the girl. Those ones just make me extra sad, my favorite are the ones where both the guy and girl go through everything for the other, they both give up so much in hopes of bringing happiness to the other. You know the story where the wife sells her hair in order to buy a chain for the husband’s watch and the husband sells his watch to buy her a comb. It’s a terribly sad story, and yet it makes me so happy, because it tells of a love so real that both give up their best, so that the other can have more. God did that for us, He gave us His best. He gave us His only son, but what have we given Him. Have we given Him our best, our most treasured? Some of us might have given him some nice things, but how many of us have truly given Him our best? And yet that is what we are called to do if we want to truly follow Him. We have to give up everything. We have to give up living our lives for ourselves, we have to abandon all attachments to this world, and just follow Him.  The love story, The Gift of the Magi, is so beautiful because their love for the other was worth more than what they had. It was worth more than what they were giving up.  When God went to His disciples and told them to follow Him, they could, because the lives they were giving up, were worth less to them, then the lives they would gain by following Him. What about our lives is so precious that they aren’t worth giving up, for Him? What are we holding on to that is more precious than Him? That’s the question I need to answer, and then re-evaluate my value system, because I honestly can’t think of a anything better, than Him, and yet I can’t seem to let go. I love great love stories, and while the story God has written me into is already great, I want to contribute to it. I want my life to be a love story back to Him.