True Love Conquers all!

Have you ever heard the saying, "true love conquers all?" Well I don't know about you but I for one believe in true love. I recently watched a movie that brought the saying, "true love conquers all" to mind. The movie is titled, "Warm Bodies." It is the story of a boy zombie named "R" who narrates the film. He can not speak but we can hear his thoughts. As the movie begins he let's us know that even though he is a zombie, he feels he is missing something in his "undead" life. (Give me a minute, I'm going somewhere with this.) He lives in a community of zombies and "bonies." The zombies are all people who have contracted a disease that became a world wide epidemic and caused their hearts to stop but they did not die, the "bonies" are zombies who have given up on their very existence and turned into undead skeletons. Anyway, as the story unfolds, "R" and his zombie friends venture out to "town." Town is where unaffected regular humans live. The reason for their visit...zombies eat living humans to survive. On this particular trip, "R" happens upon "Julie." Just as she is about to be eaten, R steps in and saves her. Not only does he save her but he takes her back to the zombie community because he wants to "keep her," for R it's love at first sight. What R doesn't know is that Julie is the daughter of Commander Grigio. Grigio's mission in life is to kill all zombies and bonies. He spends his days planning zombie ambushes and training humans to help, with a goal of wiping out all zombies and bonies because he feels they can not change therefore they must be killed in order for the humans to survive. Though he can not talk to her, R and Julie soon develop a loving relationship. As they get to know each other, something inside R begins to change. Soon he and Julie are totally in love as a result R's heart begins to beat again, and his cold undead body begins to warm up. Soon the other zombies not only see, but they feel the love that has bloomed between R and Julie and they too are affected by it. Things take an unexpected turn when the bonies decide to leave the zombie community and head for town planning to eat all the humans, but because of R and Julie's love the zombies, who now have warm beating hearts, are determined to help the humans defeat the bonies. To make a long story short, it is Julie's acceptance and willingness to look beyond R's "zombiness," and love him back that changes everything. With that being said, let me say this...if you are going through life without Christ in your heart, in my opinion you are just an "undead" zombie. I Peter 4:8 says, "And above all things have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude of sins." I John 4:8 says in the latter part, "God is love." So not only can we love each other through difficult times but if we have real love in our hearts, which in essence is God Himself, we can change. Our lives can be better and we can change the lives of others just like Julie and R. True love, God, changes everything! Think about it!