Marriage Moats-The Ending

Published: Wed, 03/13/13

Marriage Moats

Caring for Marriage

There are two television shows I watch with my girls. The other day we saw the season finale of White Collar. I was a mess. Volatile dangers crisscrossed through the lives of these characters, leaving me agitated and worried. I yelled. I railed against the bad guys and moaned about the long wait until next season. There is no conceivable resolution. None. Everything is terrible and will stay terrible.

In an effort to lessen my angst we watched a past episode of our other favorite, Leverage. In this one a shady Italian villain blackmails the team into a high risk proposition. But this time I knew how it turns out. They overturned the corrupt government on a remote island by hijacking an election, hacking into the internet, faking a death and swooping into prison to free the true president. The first time I saw it, my heart rate escalated and I clutched the arm of my chair. I could not concoct any possible scenario where everyone survived.

But this time I was privy to how it ended. It was simply entertaining.

Then I paused. In a flash of fast forward, I saw myself thirty years from now, looking back over my shoulder at the storyline in which I play the lead. Today I do not know the outcome, and feel imprisoned by that ignorance. But one day I will break free, and the evil forces hammering in the foreground will lose their control. Even my death will be fake, because I will live.

Maybe that is why God is so calm. He knows how it turns out.

Photo by Jenny Stein

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