Walking with Jesus

Annointing. Gift of God. Unearned, undeserved, unsought. Some sing with words; some with images... All reflect God, whose trumpet voice still rings out the endless echo: "Let there be..."

Having invited you to consider watching this movie I want to prepare you for it. This is not the best movie ever made. The whole Amish world is too clean, the choreography is too staged, and the main characters are completely fictional. This isn't a movie for learning about Amish life or even the history of the 2006 events are the center of the book this movie is loosly based upon. (A book, by the way, whose authors intentionally avoided being involved with the film.) However, it is a story worth watching. In fact, its oversimplification of the events and various reactions may be part of the reason I recomend it to you. So often we get caught up in the details and struggles around tragedy that we fail to see the larger picture: good versus evil, spiritual versus material, and right versus wrong. We refuse to commit to self-sacrifice. We think of ourselves as the only victoms, rather than seeing our 'enemies' as *atan's victims also. We forgive by half-measures (o...