Today was a good day, we are going to our new church and the kids are starting to like Sunday school more, A just cried when I left her in the nursery instead of screamed. We dropped the kids off at Grandma’s afterwards and my husband took me on a date to see Les Miserables, it has long been a favorite musical of mine and I’ve read all of Hugo Wolf’s books, let’s just call me a big fan of his. The movie was amazing, great storytelling, the singing was acceptable and even good in some parts. (Not as good as on stage, but good enough). Afterwards we went out to eat and got to try prosciutto for the first time, it is kind of a cross between ham and bacon, very good. My husband watched the end of a football game at the in-laws and then we drove home and put our worn out kids to bed (Grandma decided to take them swimming)
We talked about money for a bit and my husband has things under control, I just need to trust him, even if he does things differently than I would, he really does a great job of providing and taking care of us. We also had an interesting discussion about whether Les Miserables is a Christian movie or not. It has many Christian ideas in it like the battle between grace and the law, and putting your trust in God and not yourself, and there is a lot about mercy in the movie also, but we decided that it couldn’t be considered a Christian movie because the gospel was not in it. Jean Valjean commits a sin, then he gives his life to God and he spends the rest of his life loving mercy, choosing to do right, helping others, and living for God. Sounds Christian, right? But it’s missing the most important part of Christianity, it’s missing the part that we CAN’T do good on our own, that’s why we need Christ, no matter how hard we try to be good, we’re going to sin and have a life with sin in it. Jean Valjean didn’t sin after he gave his life to Christ and that is not biblical and it’s not how the Christian walk really is. So this movie is spreading the lie that we can be good if we are a Christian and we try hard enough. We need to daily give our life, our burdens, our choices to Christ and let Him do the work through us, we will fail, we will fall, but we keep going to Christ and we keep trying, that is the truth, only Christ working in us can make things good, beautiful and true, never ourselves.
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Hi, I just found your blog, is your line
‘“woman is specially made to please man. If man ought to please her in turn, the necessity is less urgent. His merit is in his power; he pleases because he is strong. This is not the law of love, I admit, but it is the law of nature, which is older than love itself. . . .
ooh, I like the idea of being specially made to please man, especially a strong man.’
Are you being sarcastic or truthful? I ask before making any further comment.
Serious, if you read my blog you’ll discover that I’m rarely if ever sarcastic. Now you have me curious as to what your question might be….I hope I gave the right answer.
As little as I can say due to lack of real familiarity, Sis is pretty darned genuine.
On the topic of movies, some christian writer opined a long time ago that Hollywood makes better christian movies than Christians do. I’ll see if I can find the link. Don’t discount the power of the partial message. It is similar to the evangelist who invites the person for whom a lot of groundwork has already been laid…a piece of the puzzle.
et voila
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0294.htm
Aw thanks! This movie was better than any of the Christian movies out there I’ve seen, Christian movies seem to not want to make their movies too dirty, but it’s the ugly that really makes Christ look beautiful, it’s the pain that makes the gospel amazing. Christian movies can be like listening to nursery songs when we really need to hear jazz. It’s the accidentals and the ugly notes that make a song/movie/story worth listening to.