YESTERDAY, I watched the movie, “La La land”.  It’s a musical about two people pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. The female lead is pursuing a career as an actress and the male protagonist is pursuing a music career as a jazz musician. Both meet and fall in love but in the end they have to part ways because their love for their dreams takes them on separate paths.  Fast forward five years later and both have succeeded in achieving their dreams. The female protagonist gets the acting career she always wanted and gets married and has a child, meanwhile the male protagonist achieves his ultimate goal of starting his own jazz club. By a fluke chance meeting, the female character just happens to come upon her former lover’s jazz club. She sits at a table with her husband and sure enough she is taken back when she sees her ex lover come out onstage and play his piano. He also sees her in the audience and so when he plays, he plays with everything he has. As he plays, she begins to dream about what might have been. As he plays, we the audience sees what their lives could’ve been, him giving up his dream for hers, them getting married, having a child, sharing life together. However, as the song ends so does the dream and we are back to reality. She gets up to leave along with her husband but as she is about to walk out, she turns back around and her and the guy at the piano share a moment. Their expressions on their faces speak volumes as if to say, “You will always be in my heart.”  I liked the movie just for the fact that sometimes relationships you want to be in don’t always work out. As I look back in my life, I have had a few relationships where I have dated but we were just on separate paths. At some point, we had to move on. My marriage got to that point too. We almost reconciled but as things became clear, it was best to go our separate ways.  It’s easy to want to stay though in that place of nostalgia. That place of what could’ve been. We then find ourselves trapped in the past while the present moves on without us.  It does no good to hold onto that person, thinking maybe today it’s going to happen and they’ll change their mind. Life is complicated and relationships come and go and it hurts. Sometimes the person you want to be with doesn’t want the same thing. The only wise thing we can do is keep moving forward. God has a plan and a purpose  in all this. The broken relationship may not be restored but your life can. Let Him restore the joy that only a relationship with Him can give. For the two main characters in the movie, their dreams were the motivation for them moving forward. As Christians our focus should be on our relationship with God and the plan of hope He has for us. We are commanded to follow Jesus. God is not stagnant stuck in the past, He is always moving forward. The Bible says, “keep in step with the Spirit”, Galatians 5:25.  Remember you have a friend in Jesus, who will never leave you nor forsake you. His love for you is eternal. There will never be any regrets, or breakups with Him.  Stuck in La La Land, over the hurts of a past relationship? Don’t look back, look forward and take His hand. He will guide you from that place of what might have been to that place where all  things are possible. TODAY, is a new day! 

Isaiah 43:18-20