Arrival: Choosing Love Knowing the Cost (Romans 8:18)

Louise Banks learns the alien language—and it changes how she experiences time. She can see her future: the joy of her daughter's birth, the agony of her daughter's death. Knowing the end, she still chooses to begin. She embraces a future she knows will break her heart. "For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed," Paul writes. Louise doesn't avoid suffering; she walks into it with open eyes because the love is worth the loss. This is how God loves us—knowing fully what it will cost, choosing us anyway. The beginning is worth the end. The joy is worth the grief.