With all the controversy surrounding Tim Tebow’s pro-life ad, you may have missed another equally as pro-life and uplifting ad.
With the popular Google search engine as the sole backdrop to the story, a man looks to Paris as place to go to school, and by way of an Internet search, he finds a café near the famous Louvre. A French girl tells him he is cute, but of course the expression of amore must first be sent through Google for the English conversion. But the language of love is not lost in translation.
After a quick Internet search for chocolates and poetry, the long distance relationship culminates with wedding in a French church – yes church!
But wait! There’s more.
After a proper courtship, and a Christian wedding, the Internet surfer looks for a way to assemble a baby crib, and the commercial ends with the quick cooing of a newborn baby.
Refreshing, isn’t it? Where’d it come from?
The author of the article suspects it comes from a society tired of the morality envelope being pushed. Isn’t that the truth! The commercial wasn’t earth shattering. It wasn’t overtly pushing a message, but the progression of the text spoke of the traditional values so many would like to see return.
It’s interesting they chose France as the country to highlight, where the birthrate is negative. America’s demographics are falling as well and some predict we will follow Europe in our birthrate if we don’t start producing stronger families. Kudos to organizations such as Focus on the Family for their work in restoring family values and promoting the traditional family.
But major kudos to Google for their unexpected promotion of the family! Simple though it was this ad took yet another opportunity to put focus on the family. And speaking of putting focus on the family, did you see Drew Brees with his son at the end of the game? I couldn’t take my eyes off the sight
Earlier, as confetti swirled just above the playing surface at Sun Life Stadium, Brees’ eyes were already watering, trying not to cry as he held his son, Baylen, who was wearing a Saints jersey with his father’s name on the back and a headset so the loud celebration wouldn’t scare him. Brees struggled yet one more time to keep his emotions in check as he lifted the silver Lombardi trophy over his head.
But a few minutes into his postgame interview, Brees simply quit trying.
“Eighty-five percent of the city was under water, all the residents evacuated all over the country, people never knowing if they were coming back or if New Orleans would come back,” he said. “But not only the city came back, and the team came back … when the players got there, we all looked at one another and said, ‘We’re going to rebuild together.’
“We leaned on each other,” Brees said, pausing as he choked up. “This is the culmination of that.”