The most watched movie in my life is not very popular. I first watched it on Hallmark channel some years ago. This weekend, I watched i again.
These are the times I honestly believed I belonged to a different generation. I was appalled at the description of the 'Y Generation' recently, at a workshop. I had a different understanding of it. But perhaps, it does hold true in some rights.
But I think I would have fit well in a different generation. Before the advent of the Internet. When writing letters still worked. When modest dressing was still in style (even if you repeated everything in your closet). When the use of foul language was not regarded as 'showing emphasis' but rather, indecent behaviour. When co-habitation was a no-no. When being a Christian was something people had greater tolerance for, rather than....
When it was polite to say 'hello' to anyone who walked past you. When it was only correct to admit your mistake. When we wouldn't stoop so low in our lives so as to indulge in mindless arguments. When following the rules was not out of fashion or hypocritical (I have no idea how this view came about but apparently it does)!
Or maybe when life was just a lot more ordinary. May be even simple.
In this movie (no parental guidance required), every scene depicted that which we may not hear of anymore.
When a man accepts a woman who is with child, and loves her unconditionally...
When aborting an unborn child was not even as option....
When love helped us heal...
When it was very human to harbour some bitterness or resentment towards the Japanese workers at the farm, even when they were in no way involved with Pearl Harbour
When time healed the guilt and condemnation in the heart of man...
When we eventually embrace that nothing occurs by chance....and in Him (God), all things hold together....
When we realize that above everything we pride ourselves in, we're still helpless souls, in need of divine intervention... (and it is alright to be dependent on one another)....
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Billy Graham's prayer for America in 2008, is best applied to the rest of the world:
“Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.
We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done.
We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values.· We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery.
We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare.
We have killed our unborn and called it choice.
We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem.
We have abused power and called it politics.
We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression.
We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!”
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