If anyone wants to understand why I have a heart for Europe, and what Js would have to offer young Europeans, I recommend you watch the movie
"L'auberge Espanol" (the spanish hostel)
It is basically i thought a fairly accurate portrayal of the lives of "typical" young Western europeans, based on my experiences here. A French Erasmus student (it was so funny seeing how the Erasmus program was depicted here) moves in with a Belgian girl, a Dane, a Spanish girl , an English girl, an Italian guy and a German guy in a small apartment in the Barrio Antico in Barcelona. Hilarity ensues of course, as well as raising issues about what it means to be a new European.
The thing that moved me the most though was really how the characters in this show were just living for love and sex and the next party and friendship, and these are the highest goals they are chasing after. The deep deep truth of Chst, which speaks to the inmost and deepest part of ourselves, the restoration of the connection with our creator, the power Js has to forge deep friendships rooted in Him, the beauty of His Truth about our Sexuality and its true purpose, love that is not self-interested but self-sacrificing, placing the eternal things above the ephemeral pleasures and stimuli that last but a moment, and leave people feeling emptier than before.... the Truth, in a word, was conspiculously absent from the lives of those characters.
It made me hunger to show young Europeans that there is more to Gods plan for our sexuality than just hook ups, there is more to life than just getting a good job or finding a "true love", that there is a greater story we are all invited to take part in, that faithfulness and honesty and sincerity are not old-fashioned, that friendship is based on more than just having things in common or going through some experiences together, that there is pain involved in divorce, and casual sex, and homosexual experimentation, and a life whose high point is going out to the clubs.
It may come across judgmental for me to say these things, but basically watching that film made me long to point to a way that is bigger than myself, and more powerful than myself, and the answer to every deep question stitched into our fragile human hearts.
"L'auberge Espanol" (the spanish hostel)
It is basically i thought a fairly accurate portrayal of the lives of "typical" young Western europeans, based on my experiences here. A French Erasmus student (it was so funny seeing how the Erasmus program was depicted here) moves in with a Belgian girl, a Dane, a Spanish girl , an English girl, an Italian guy and a German guy in a small apartment in the Barrio Antico in Barcelona. Hilarity ensues of course, as well as raising issues about what it means to be a new European.
The thing that moved me the most though was really how the characters in this show were just living for love and sex and the next party and friendship, and these are the highest goals they are chasing after. The deep deep truth of Chst, which speaks to the inmost and deepest part of ourselves, the restoration of the connection with our creator, the power Js has to forge deep friendships rooted in Him, the beauty of His Truth about our Sexuality and its true purpose, love that is not self-interested but self-sacrificing, placing the eternal things above the ephemeral pleasures and stimuli that last but a moment, and leave people feeling emptier than before.... the Truth, in a word, was conspiculously absent from the lives of those characters.
It made me hunger to show young Europeans that there is more to Gods plan for our sexuality than just hook ups, there is more to life than just getting a good job or finding a "true love", that there is a greater story we are all invited to take part in, that faithfulness and honesty and sincerity are not old-fashioned, that friendship is based on more than just having things in common or going through some experiences together, that there is pain involved in divorce, and casual sex, and homosexual experimentation, and a life whose high point is going out to the clubs.
It may come across judgmental for me to say these things, but basically watching that film made me long to point to a way that is bigger than myself, and more powerful than myself, and the answer to every deep question stitched into our fragile human hearts.
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