The above quote was from Spike Lee's romantic film, Love & Basketball starring Omar Epps (House M.D.) and Sanaa Lathan (The Family that Preys). It is the story of two neighbors who grew up loving basketball and, eventually, each other. In 1981 L.A. the two L.A. teens Monica Write (Lathan) and Quincy McCall (Epps) are drawn together to each other and share a passion of basketball. They eventually fall in love but soon break up while playing in college at USC due to many pressures of family, school and their futures. Years later, their pro careers at a crossroads, they meet again. Quincy asks, why she is leaving the game and she tells him it just isn't fun anymore. Quincy tells her he never knew anyone who loved basketball as much as she did. , realizing her love for Quincy, who is in another relationship, challenges him to a final game of one on one. If he loses, he must choose Monica; but if he wins, he is free to choose his fiancee' Kyra.
Wait For It . . . . Quincy wins, beating her in a close game. I know right?!? Its killing me too and then the movie fast forwards to 1998 and Monica has now gone pro in the WNBA. The surname on the back of her jersey is Wright-McCall and the film ends with her husband Quincy helping their baby daughter to cheer on Monica as she is introduced at an L.A. Sparks game.
In the middle of the movie he is challenged by her coach to be successful by giving everything. You immediately know the writer is speaking of something greater. Quincy and Monica has to give up something they thought they loved (Basketball) for a greater love (each other). It was only in their crossroads with basketball that they could face the truth of their love. It makes me wonder what keeps us from realizing the most important thing in our lives is love. Not love for possession, fame or power. But a love for Christ that helps us give everything. All of it, every last bit of it, whatever that is for each of us. Then when we give it all, our entire mind, heart and soul, we realize a love for each other that couldn't be realized any other way. And the best part is, we often don't see either of this love without the cross roads of life.
So where ever you find yourself these days, allow God to use it to bring you into a closer love relationship with his Son Jesus Christ. Then and only then can you experience the "Summer of Love"
1 John 3:1-3
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.
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