I feel like I have a rare affinity with the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Eclipse is set to premiere Tuesday tonight at midnight. The ladies in my ward are going to go and see it on Thursday night – I am SO excited. To prep for this movie, the past couple weeks I have been re-reading Eclipse, and I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised to find that it is just as good as the first time reading it. However, I am able to put it down easier than I did the first time reading it and pay more attention to Clark. 
That said, it also brought to my attention how personal this series is to me. I have been able to find so many parallels in this story to my personal life. I’ve always been in awe at the attraction Clark and I have for one another. Reading how Bella and Edward naturally just want to be around each other every moment of every day. Some other characters find it strange, but to Bella and Edward it’s just natural. While dating, Clark and I took some time apart – but couldn’t stop talking to each other and always ended up back together. Now married, when we are apart – we always are texting, calling and ache for one another deeply. Other women have asked me “Don’t you ever get sick of each other?” I find that question, still so bizarre. Why would we? We honestly can’t get enough of each other!
While re-watching Twilight and New Moon with the young women at our Apartment here for our Mutual last week – Edward told Bella in the first movie, “I find myself feeling very protective of you.” I understand some people find this obsessive – but I find it wonderful. What girl doesn’t want to feel that her man is protective?
Clark and I joke now that I am ‘Cullenizing’. Or rather, ‘Cooperizing’. Through all my changes that have been happening lately. Feeling stronger, more confident, healthier, happier, more powerful by the spirit. My skin is white against practically anything and anyone. haha!
I feel I can relate so closely to Bella’s relationship with her family, Edwards family. Her friends, and herself. The ‘bad guys’, the ‘good guys’. The decisions she chooses to make in life. How hard they were for her, because she is so sensitive to peoples feelings. But she knew what she wanted – and nothing was going to stand in her way. For Bella, Immortality with Edward is everything to her.
The pure love that Bella and Edward have for each other is breath-taking. Bella is so self-conscious about her age (the fact that the longer she’s human – the older than Edward in mortal years she is), but Edward finds her insecurity silly. He looks at her like she’s frozen in time – absolutely perfect in every way. Bella looks at Edward with such adoration that he could love someone like her so completely. Being with Edward, she feels like the world escapes and she is in a safe heavenly place. All the cares in the world are meaningless and trivial – only love exists between them. The strength he holds will protect her from anything. When she’s with the Cullen’s, everyone has their selected mate for life – and they both love each other with such intensity and commitment that nobody would dare come between them because together they are powerful. The Coven as a whole is even more powerful and full of love. I am SO blessed to feel this exact same way about my Cooper ‘coven’. There is such an intense feeling of the spirit in this family that is so indescribable. Like the song, “Where love is, there God is also. Where God is, I long to be.”
I often wonder if somewhere in the world others feel the same way about their family unit (aka – ‘coven’). Or if I am unique in feeling this way, relating Twilight to my own personal life.
I would find it unfortunate if the majority of readers lived more in the book than applied it to their reality. If the love and intensity that the series provided in each book, passed by the one reading it – each page that was turned, and then simply ended once the book was closed and were only reunited in the dreams that came at night.
I hope me sharing these feelings of mine excites others to search for ways to relate or apply the feelings this book series provides. It is possible to have the same type of love that Edward and Bella have for one another. It is possible to create a coven within your family that provides the same security of the Spirit and Love that the Cullen’s have.
“Twilight” can come true. Has it yet for you?
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