a Knight's Tale

[William Thatcher, Sir Ulric, (Heath Ledger) has returned home to his father.  When he was a small boy his father gave him over to the training of a knight.  Before his father left William was worried he would not know the way home...so his father told him to just follow his feet.]

We see a beautiful reunion of father and son.  This shows the kind of love that ought to exist between our family.  It can be years between seeing each other, but we should be happy to hold and see one another.  I mentioned up above that William's father had put him into the training of a real knight grouping up.  This is what father's ought to be, father's are supposed to want more for their children than themselves.  So often today we have fathers who don't care about their children, or tell them not to reach for the stars.  Some fathers also trying to live through their kids, and not let the kid reach and change his stars, the stars he is looking for, not his father's. 

This is not an easy thing to do, but as we learned from Scripture "No one has greater love than this, to lay down one's life for one's friends." (Jn. 15:13)  True love is sacrificial.  Which is one of the reason why I think we can pull a parallel to the relationship of God the Father and God the Son.  Father gives His Son over to the world for the good of the world, to change the stars, and the Son is so sent.  The Son goes to accomplish that which He set out to do, and returns victorious to His Father.  William returns to his father having accomplished the goal he set out to do.