Wednesday, May 16
Reign over Me...
I finally got to see the movie ‘Reign over Me’ today at the dollar theatre. I’ve read good reviews and continue to hear Betsy Wolf rave about it (she’s seen it three times) so I figured I needed to give it a try.
The premise is this: A man (Adam Sandler) who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate (Don Cheadle). Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
It was really good. Cheadle is always good, Sandler was great (Don’t think ‘typical Sandler movie’) and the music is tremendous.
It explored what it takes for someone to make a change in their life…to do what they know they need to do, what they know they need to do, but for some reason or another they just don’t.
This Sunday’s teaching centers around ‘change’, the transformation that we see exemplified in the NT book of Acts as ‘Saul morphed into Paul’.
So tell me… When you look at your life, when you think back to the times of greatest change and transformation, what was it that finally brought it all about? What, ultimately, had to happen before you dealt with the pain, took a step toward recovery, or finally had the courage to do what you knew had to be done?
Mark Nelson at 10:16 PM 5comments
5 Comments
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at 9:32 AM
said... hey mark! maybe the reason I liked the movie SO much is because I needed other people, just like every character in that movie! They were each flawed, even Don Cheadle's. Sometimes you wonder who is counseling who. I would definitely say my greatest times of change and transformation were spurred on by friends who would be there even when I was a messy person to deal with.
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at 11:20 AM
The Anonymous Human said... For me, it was when I found myself becoming a person I didn't want to be. I can put up with crappy situations, but when it was something that intrinsically changed who I was becoming and what I believed, I knew I couldn't do it any longer.
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at 12:50 PM
Brokenness-Quebrantado said...
Que pasa Mark? I can say for me real change came went I stop trying to maintain myself afloat and I just let go; accepting my reality, my feelings and knowing that I couldn't do anything to change. Then I drowned all of the way to the bottom of the river. I couldn't swim back to the surface, my marriage was dying, and I literally died. Abba grabbed me and took me back and gave me a floating device. I am who I am now because I am wearing "floatis"(I don't know if is spell like this but are those small little things you put in the arms of your child so they can float)
"Chage is when God direct us to enter the dark regions of our soul
to find light, to experience His presence when we feel most alone.
Biblical change never requires us to pretend that things are better
than they are. Christ wants us to face reality as it is, including all the fears, hurts, resentments, and self-protective motives we
work hard to keep out of sight, and to emerge as changed people.
Not pretenders, not perfect. But more able to deeply love because we are more aware of His love"
Larry Crabb.-
at 2:28 PM
said...
Most people don't change because they don't want to change. Until we are desparate enough to rely on God, we continue to rely on our own devices.
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at 7:53 PM
Rob said...
Romans 12 (the message) says it better then I can:
"So here is what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life - your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life - and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out."