I just finished watching the second Chronicles of Narnia movie entitled Prince Caspian. I missed this movie when it came out with a bunch of other ones a while back and I regret not watching it in the theatres. One reason is that a movie of this calibre doesn't deserve to be watched on a tiny 29' in my rather large bonus room. Another is that C. S. Lewis is just loaded with great messages in his writings. It's been a pretty eventful weekend for me and capping it off with a great movie was really refreshing.
I am extremely tired right now so I probably will say a couple of weird things without wanting to. I have a couple of thoughts on the movie though. First and foremost, the ending because it is still fresh, that scene where Susan kisses Caspian was completely unnecessary and stuck out like a sore thumb. I don't even think it happened in the book, but I could be wrong because Prince Caspian was one of the books I did not read in the series. But overall, I think it was a really good movie. C.S Lewis continues to amaze me with the amount of hidden messages that are in his pieces of work. All that I came across kind of reinforces what I've been thinking about lately with the advent weeks of Christmas as well, so I will try to briefly list them out because I've captured them in my mind and is escaping me.
A little bit before this "4 weeks of advent" began, I started thinking something when I was trying to sleep. Hope is a word that has been completely butchered by our society and has nearly completely lost its meaning. I was laying in my bed and I was thinking about alot of stuff, which I will not mention. And then all of a sudden, a thought came to my mind that I could not believe I had just thought. I was pretty shocked at what it was because when I thought about what I had just thought(sounds weird), I looked at the word "hope" in a way that I have never before. Then all of a sudden, oddly enough, we come to the week of "hope" during the 4 weeks of advent and I get reminded of what real hope means. It's when you have absolutely nothing left, and you are hoping that tomorrow may bring some sort of happiness to your life, to be able to get by the day with enough to eat, or a place to sleep, etc. Of course what I thought about wasn't about enough to eat or to sleep, it was on a different scale but I still think it can be related to the same degree. We get "hope" mixed up so often with "wish" that it really doesn't mean a big difference between someone saying "I hope I can get by tomorrow without being hurt" or "I hope I can have a 8 oz. steak tomorrow".
Again, I don't like people to have to worry about me because it's not worth it. But no one reads this anyway, so it's all good =D But after watching Prince Caspian, a very refreshing assurance gave me some peace in knowing that God is all powerful and as long as we keep seeking Him, things WILL be okay and tomorrow will be a better day. Like Aslan said a couple times, things never happen twice the exact same way. This phrase also is good because it helps you realize that just because God came through once a certain way, does not mean he'll do it the second time exactly the same way. Why? Because if God keeps coming to save our butts everytime we end up at the same spot, we'll never learn and we will never learn to go seek God like Lucy did. You must have faith to cross the bridge where you find Christ so you can see Him face to face.
I don't know, the messages that mister C.S Lewis has in his stories is just too much for a tired and sleepy boy like me right now. There is so much I could write on but I cannot put it into words right now so it will have to wait.
Destination Known - I Will Go
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