Angel in Love: Lessons on being the Romantic Man (part 3)

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(part 3)  Angel in Love: Lessons on being the Romantic Man. Cary Grant is Dudley the Angel in the movie, The Bishop’s Wife.

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Dudley: (is on the floor playing with Debbie, the 8 year old girl. He tells her a story…)

My keen observation: Ladies, any man who can bond with a child is good marriage material. If he can bond with a child, he can bond with the child inside a woman. Notice he gets down on Debbie’s level, takes her correction and he knows how to tell a good story.

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Dudley: Angels come down and put ideas into people’s heads and then people feel very proud of themselves because they think it was all their idea.

My thought: I have come to believe what Dudley described is the primary way God speaks to humans. God is speaking to us all the time through intuition, pictures, visions, and revelation. If we tune into the flow of our intuition, we’ll enjoy an intimacy with the Divine we’ve never experienced before.

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Dudley: … you can tell the story from here, Henry.

Henry: Some other time.

My outraged reaction: Henry! You big duffer! You missed another golden opportunity. Dudley shows you honor by turning the story over to you, and you still have something more important to do than tell your child a story, win the admiration of your wife, and show Dudley you are big enough to cooperate with him instead of compete with him. Men who practice competition with other men only show how jealous and insecure they are.

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Julia: It somehow feels wrong to have so much fun.

My thought: Dudley has bought her the hat she’s been admiring, he’s taking her ice skating, they’ve had lunch at her favorite restaurant – this woman is being shown a good time. This is what her husband should be doing to win her heart every week of their marriage. She is safe with Dudley, so this is a good kind of risk for a woman to take with her man. These shared moments will be remembered for the rest of her life. She wants to have these memories with her husband.

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Sylvester (Taxi cab driver):  …people don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast. Take you two for example, I’d call you unusual. First place, you know your destination but you’re in no hurry to get there. you want to enjoy some scenery en route, and you’re not reluctant to spend an extra four bits for a detour with Mother Nature.

Dudley: Thank you, you are perceptive.

My observation: You had me at: “I’d call you unusual”. Translation: You’re a romantic couple. Thank you – someone noticed. Do you and your woman have a shared destination? Are you taking time along the way, spending time and money to make some memories and take a few detours into the great outdoors?

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Dudley to Sylvester: Put on some skates and you’ll find out just how young you are.

Julia to Henry: He made me believe I could skate!

My comment: Dudley believes the best about people. He encourages them to take healthy risks. People feel young and alive with him. They reach for more than they would have if by themselves. Dudley is being good news to people.

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Dudley: Sylvester is a noble soul. His children and his children’s children will rise up and call him blessed.

My thought: Dudley shows he is a leader of men because he is not in competition with men. He has the inner security to show honor to another man in front of  Julia. He didn’t say this to impress her, he was thinking out loud and she overheard him. Again, his inner thoughts are not secret from her. He has nothing to be ashamed of.

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In part 4, Dudley is going to say, what I consider to be one of the most romantic things a man can tell a woman.