A Love Worth Dying For
The skies were full of big, puffy clouds, and the planes seemed to appear out of nowhere as they screamed overhead. Everyone watching the airshow was having a great time.
The clouds were beautiful, but it also meant the air is unstable.
Suddenly, it began to hail. Now hail is frozen ice, and it's normally the size of a pebble. But this hail was the size of golfballs, and struck those people like fastballs pitched at 90 miles-per-hour. With no way to protect themselves, the people panicked. Everyone began to run for their cars and shelter more than a football field away.
Most of the men, because they were bigger and faster, would be able to make it to safety. But the women and children were pounded by the hail and smashed in the grass.
Seeing what was happening, some of the men stopped running. Instead of saving themselves, they grabbed their wives and children, pushed them down to the ground and covered them with their own bodies.
As the hail crashed against their skulls and their backs, they struggled to stay conscious, holding on tightly to the ones they loved, acting as their shield. Some of those men suffered broken bones, ruptured kidneys and concussions.
And some of them died. Their last conscious act was to protect the people they loved, no matter what it cost.
But not everyone did that. Some of them made it to the cars. They watched in horror as their wives, girlfriends and little kids were pulverized by the hail.
Eventually, the storm passed. When it was safe again, those men got out of their cars and helped everyone who was hurt get medical attention.
But everybody learned something about how much they were loved that day. Some people found out they were loved so much they were worth dying for.
And some people found out they weren't so precious.
The truth is: All relationships face pressure. Pressures outside of the relationship will try to squash it like a bug. Pressures on the inside of the relationship will try to push you apart from each other.
Pressure is what rips people apart.
The question for young people is: When you’re relationship is under pressure, are you going to run too?
A lot of people think you will. They think it's too hard for you. Adults often say, "You can't keep teens from having sex! They're just like dogs! They have raging hormones they can't control --- and they're sooo selfish! They don't think about anyone else but themselves."
Makes you wonder if the reason they think this generation can't do it, is because they couldn't do it.
It's probably true that a lot of young people will repeat the same mistakes the last generation made, and end up with relationships that break apart under pressure...
... but not everyone will. So if you're one of the FEW...
We challenge you to be the kind of person who would die for love.
The kind of person who makes fools out of everyone who says,
"You can't keep teenagers from having sex!"
