Christian Women in Leadership

what we can learn from the princess bride

random thought today while walking into my apartment building. remember that guy from the movie "The Princess Bride"? (I saw it again a few months ago. great movie.) who kept saying, "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die" and that was his quest in life--to avenge his father's death by finding the man who had who killed his dad.

I was thinking about this movie character; his purpose, everything in his life was already prepared. His entire life he had spent to train for this one thing (that his heart ached for). Gosh, I am so Gen-X, but let me draw a parallel here.

Kierkegaard said, "Purity of heart is to will one thing," and I guess that's what makes this character so memorable, is his purity for one thing, one goal, that he trains for his entire life until finally it is completed.

Thus, if I could just find that one thing, the "mission" for what I should do (not that it will be as interesting as avenging the death of my father; my father is still alive anyways). I mean, for what I was created to do.

Of course, I have goals and all, so that must not be what mission is about or else I would be satisfied. And most Christians would say, "To Glorify God," is what their mission is, but try to unpack that statement? What does that mean for me tomorrow, November 18, 2004?

posted by the princess @ 11/17/2004 07:00:00 AM