FORGIVING SEAN, by Jessica Adriel

Wednesday - Today we get to my favorite character, Hawke Davies. Hawke is my favorite for a couple of reasons. First because he's a Christian who is sold out on working for Christ. Second, because he's unlike our poster-board image of what a Christian should look like. A former drug addict and pusher, Hawke turns to music. His hair is a bit better kept up, but it's still long and he still has his beard. He's still dressing like something out of a GQ meets Goth kind of catelog, and he sports tattoos and earrings. There was a time when I would have looked down on a person like that just because of the way the dressed, because of their tattoos, and especially the earrings, but God worked a miracle in my life, and...and this isn't about me, it's about Hawke. Sorry.
Hawke is Marissa's "nearly engaged" boyfriend. When Sean Moffit left, he left her with a burden no one should have to bear. Trying to rectify that became harder and harder the further he went down the road he had chosen to travel. Hawke was there to pick her up when she was down, to help soothe her pain, to fill a gap left in her life that had been left vacant. As he did this something began to happen to him, he began to fall in love. When I say that I don't mean the idiotic kind of "falling in love" you read about in most contemporary romance novels, but the kind of love that says, "If you ever need anything, ANYTHING, I'm here for you." It wasn't romantic attraction. It wasn't some kind of desire for her beauty. Instead he had seen what she was like on the inside and really, really liked what he saw. The more he thought about that the more he couldn't stop thinking about that and before he knew it he found himself totally head over heels over her.
Hawke is a type of Jesus in this story. By that I don't mean he was divine and all that. However you will find these elements that both share. Jesus saw our need and stepped down from His throne to meet that need. He didn't look at what we looked like on the outside, but what we were on the inside, or to be more specific, what we could be if we let His love live in us and produce that kind of fruit that love always produces...more love. You see, if you hate or even dislike someone, you begin to train yourself to dislike that person until that dislike becomes hate. On the other side of that coin you'll find that the more we train ourselves to love someone the more we actually do love someone. Whether or not they return our love doesn't matter. Okay, it matters, but not in the same way you might think. It matters because love when it isn't accepted always hurts, but it remains. It doesn't change to hatred. Lust will always turn to hatred after a while.
There's a lot more about Hawke I could write here, but I'd be giving the book away. Suffice it to say that Hawke becomes the human anchor for Marissa and the battering ram that breaks down Sean's walls, even if it meant breaking down a few of his own. It's a message of love that people, especially our young people, need to hear today. Not everyone is a loser. Not everyone will betray you. Yes they will all fail you at one point or another, but most of your friends will ask forgiveness and move on. A true friend will be there for you and there are people like that in God's family because Jesus is like that and God is molding us to be in the very image of His Son. Maybe that's why it's so easy to see the connection between Hawke and Jesus. Hawke was just doing what Jesus told us we should do.
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