Fireproof

We finally saw Fireproof, months too late, and yes, it really is that amazing. I didn't have many doubts, after crying my way through Facing the Giants, but life gets busy. It had been sitting on the shelf for two weeks before we finally sat down to watch it, and I am so thankful that we did. I will freely admit that I got something in my eyes in this one, too. It's a great movie.

Fireproof focuses on the marriage of Caleb and Katherine. There is a marriage, but upon looking inside, there is simply dust and the remains of what once existed. There is little left inside, and each believes that the other is to blame. They believe there is no hope for a common future.

Caleb's dad asks Caleb to make a promise. He asks him to commit 40 days to this marriage. If he is willing to take the love dare, working every day, in big and small things, then perhaps there is hope. Caleb's dad also points him towards another love, the love of Jesus Christ, without which we cannot truly love, because if we don't know Christ, then we don't truly understand love.

As the movie unfolds we see Caleb's feeble efforts to shatter the bonds of their broken history and Katherine's struggle to see Caleb as a new man, rather than the old. It is a beautiful tale of what a relationship can be, should be, and gives each individual in a relationship something to aspire to.