there is freedom.

I have watched the most movies in the last few days than I have for a while haha :P

I watched Voyage of the Dawn Treader Saturday night and Black Swan Monday night...both were really good!

Black Swan...haha I'm not too sure what to say about it but Natalie Portman was amazing! The movie showed really well the pressures people are under I think and how easy it is for us to succumb to temptations and basically do whatever we can to get what we want...also shows how weak we are as humans...

I really really liked Dawn Treader! I felt that it was soooo applicable to what we struggle with everyday. It talks about evil spirits and how it's so easy to fall into temptation and how each 'spirit' is shaped into what we individually struggle with most. It also shows how sin can turn us against one another when really we need to be working together and loving each other. There was this one part where Eustace turns back into a boy from a dragon and he says something along the lines of "no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't do it on my own, and then Aslan appears and scrapes off his dragon skin, at first it's kind of painful, but it was a good kind of pain." I guess that just reminded me of how so many times I try to do things on my own and rely on myself when in the end, we are weak and we can't do it on our own! Also when things don't go as we planned, it hurts but in the end, God is in control, He knows the bigger picture and has a better plan for us...it's hard to accept sometimes but that pain is a good kind of pain and it is that pain that helps us grow :)

AND it was a good reminder that we need to focus on the present, what we can do now and how we can be used now rather than dwelling on the past and having regrets!!

It was really such a good movie! CS Lewis has so much wisdom! And then the funny thing is, the sermon on Sunday was also similar to the movie in that our 'enemies' are not those of flesh and blood but the system...how everything is set up, the pressures we have, the stereotypes there are...which reminded me of Romans 12:9-10...'Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.'

It can become so easy to dwell on the bad of people and think that it's them and that's all they are and forget to see the good! We just need to love people constantly which is something I struggle with...easier said than done >_< BUT we can't do it on our own right? hehe funny how everything kinda ties together :P