Last night I went to the cinema to watch Twilight. It’s a modern day love story with some interesting twists and a fair number of adrenalin action scenes.

It’s a story of two worlds meeting, of taboos being broken and personal safety being thrown aside for love of another person. There are two central characters, Bella who is an independent teenage girl and Edward who happens to be a vampire.

There are some great gritty themes of love coming out of the film (as opposed to slushy cheap love that is often displayed in movies) which show that real love costs, demands a risk for all (not just the two who are ‘in love’) and that loves can only result in some difficult choices.

When Edward is talking with Bella, suggesting she should stay away because he is ‘the most dangerous predator in the world’ she replies ‘I’d rather die than stay away from you.’The film starts with Bella saying something like ‘I never thought of ding, but if you have to die, what better way than to die in the place of someone you love.’

My reflections and thoughts immediately went to the cross and again, I am forced to recognise the presence of God and God themes through many movies that are around at the moment. I am freminded again that the sacred secular divide is a human construct, and that God is able, willing and does step across, blur and dismiss such divides.

The reminder to me is to look through those barriers and allow myself to see them blurred so that I do not place my personal limits on how, when and where God can speak.