Love Worth Fighting For

This was supposed to be a quick share but then I started talking about why I wanted to share it.  :oP

As mentioned in my Pinterest post, I've been clearing email drafts of random links from everywhere.  One of them was this song, Love Is Not a Fight, by Warren Barfield.

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I heard of this song from the movie Fireproof.  A cheesy movie with a really great message.  It's about a couple, Caleb and Catherine, who are on the rocks and fighting all the time.  They are about to give up and get a divorce when Caleb's dad challenges him to a 40-day "Love Dare," (a real-life Christian devotional program designed to strengthen marriages).  He does it reluctantly, but silently without telling Catherine what he is doing.  I don't want to spoil it for anyone, so you can read the wikipedia entry if you want to know what happens without watching the movie.

Despite it being kinda cheesy and the actors not being that great (sorry, Kirk Cameron), it was a pretty powerful movie, and I am usually not moved by such things as movies!  Though I'm sure anyone can identify with the struggles, I felt like it impacted me all the more because I was married.  (And Tim and I don't even really fight!)

Anyway... one of the theme songs in the movie is called "Love is Not a Fight."  The lyrics are below and I encourage you to read it through.  So many people are getting divorces these days... sometimes it seems like marriages aren't worth it anymore.  We've become a very "me"-centric society and the minute something or someone doesn't make me happy, we move onto something that does.  But I want to think differently -- that marriage is a commitment made and not to be broken.

Love Worth Fighting For

By Warren Barfield

Love is not a place
To come and go as we please
It's a house we enter in
Then commit to never leave

So lock the door behind you
Throw away the key
We'll work it out together
Let it bring us to our knees

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

To some, love is a word
That they can fall into
But when they're falling out
Keeping that word is hard to do

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

Love will come to save us
If we'll only call
He will ask nothing from us
But demand we give our all

Love is a shelter in a raging storm
Love is peace in the middle of a war
And if we try to leave, may God send angels to guard the door
No, love is not a fight but it's something worth fighting for

I will fight for you
Would you fight for me?
It's worth fighting for 

 

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Have you seen Fireproof before?  What do you think about this song?