The Bridget Jones Syndrome

The World's full of Bridget Jones look alikes... at least spiritually we are. We all just want someone (maybe God) to say... I love you, just the way you are. Then we want to not believe it, and strive and work to make ourselves loveable.. all the while hoping against hope it really is... true.... Not that it could be of course. We after all know all the worst bits about ourselves, and so does God. If I can't love myself, and really I'm my biggest fan, how possibly then could God? In the first "Bridget Jones' Diary" we see a very average english girl with a sadly average self esteem, beating her brains out trying to be attractive and snag herself a man... because no matter how much she told herself she didn't need a relationship to be happy, she really wanted one. I think people are generally the same with God. Telling themselves they don't need or even want a relationship with Him. To have a real realationship with God probably isn't even possible anyway, etc... But all the time longing for unconditonal love, and to be really known and accepted where they're at, without a list of guidelines for things that need to be changed before acceptance and forgiveness can be granted. So poor old Bridget, chases and nabs the man she thinks she can get, instead of the type of man she really wants. She wins, a commitmentphobic, meglomaniac - lucky girl.. and convinces herself that's what she wanted all along, and maybe with a little luck he'll turn out to be the man she assumes she can't be in a relationship in the first place. Are you getting this... It makes perfect sense in my head, but sometimes writing it down with everyone looking at it - well I worry it's confusing.... I'll end here, next time we'll dissect the sequel... I think the first is an analogy of the worlds longing for Christ, but refusal to allow Him to forgive and love them. The second is more a great analogy for the Christian who still thinks they need to earn what they have already freely been given. Actually I guess there is not need to write about the sequel in details if it summarizes so easily... (By the way.. the movies although naughty - are quite funny in an english sort of way.)