Turns out, I guest post for people who I have random connections with. Last week it was Kayse Pratt {6 Things I Learned in 6 Months of Marriage}, who was my city-neighbor for a year, and today it’s Marie Osborne.
I connected with Marie on Twitter only to discover she is the daughter-in-law of my brother-in-law’s pastor (Pastor Larry Osborne at North Coast in Vista, CA). David, my brother-in-law, works at North Coast and knows all the Osbornes.
Crazy. Small. World.
So, I’m writing over on Marie’s blog as part of her new series called Living Out His Love:
This world isn’t perfect. We are fallen creatures struggling to learn how to give and receive this love. How to live out His love.It’s a lifelong goal for all of us. But we can stumble along together. This series, “Living out His Love,” will be a place where we can talk this out. Share about our struggles, what His word says, what we learn in prayer and practice, really trying to live out this love. How we’ve been encouraged and how we’ve been wounded by others attempting to live out His love in our lives. Our hopes, our aspirations, our past. What we thought love was and how we learned it was different. How we strive to apply this love, in loving Him, our family, friends, enemies, community, ourselves.
My take on Living Out His Love revolves around my love of based-on-a-true-story sports movies. Thank you, Rocky Balboa!
Beyond Gaps
Aside from a hefty dose of chick-flicks and Jane Austen films, my movie collection is dominated by inspirational sports dramas. I’m a sucker for the underdog and can’t get enough of the comeback montages set to heart-moving music.
The likes of Remember The Titans, We Are Marshall, and Miracle make me cry without fail. Maybe it was the boxing factor or the endless sequels, but my based-on-a-true-story, sports film fanaticism never touched the Rocky collection.
Little did I know that lurking beneath all the blood, sweat, and punching, there were real lessons to be learned about love from the unlikely boxer. With a few short lines uttered in the company of his friend Paulie and a bunch of cold cows waiting to be butchered, Rocky perfectly illustrates the symbiotic nature of true love.
Emily C Gardner 
Love . . . that’s the Rocky Spirit!
Please checkout the book Rocky Spirit, the Rocky Balboa connection to Success. I believe you will enjoy and connect with it. You can google Rocky Spirit to find it on Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com or go to http://www.rockyspirit.org. I look forward to getting your thoughts and feedback on the story. Thank you, your Rocky Balboa post was appreciated..
I’ll check it out! Thanks Felice.