Good Friday morning! The next Friday will be Christmas! I chose to add the LWF devotional this morning as it hit near what Burt and I spoke briefly on last night. We enjoyed one good movie last night, White Christmas, and had a bit of chatting too. Burt said that he was grateful that the movie didn't have all the sex, violence, and bad language we have grown accustomed to seeing in so many movies of today. This is true though the movie does allude to war violence at the start and sex throughout. Of course it does; we ain't trying to say these things don't exist! What bothers us is the images that stick in our brain. Our mind doesn't want to dwell on the naked bodies, the blood, or those words that are too easy to use in a moment of stress. But if we expose our mind and brain to that stuff all the time, we will have too many memories that cannot easily be suppressed.
Speaking of great stories, I wonder if anyone has made a movie about a young couple, the wife obviously pregnant, trying to reach a small town because the government had ordered a census? It sure seems like a great story could be had there. Hmm, I suppose one problem for most of the late model film directors and producers would be the lack of sex in the story. Yep, the woman went and got pregnant out of wedlock, they would like that part, but wait a minute, no sexual intercourse? You got it; nothing happened between Mary and Joseph before the pregnancy. Those in the world wonder how we could be so gullible. We wonder how we could have ever thought that the almighty creator of the universe would have a problem with one little pregnancy.
In any case, the celebration of that one little pregnancy is upon us once more! We had a good fellowship last night with lots of goodies and one movie. Have you noticed that as we get a little older, starting a movie after 8:30pm just doesn't sound like a good idea anymore? I could have started another after my guests decided to call it a night, but it doesn't take a mathematical genius to add 2 or 3 hours to 8:30 and come up with, "oh dear!" Yes, I am no longer the all-night movie watching animal of my younger years. Okay, so maybe I can't actually recall even one instance of staying up all night watching movies. Either the movies were not that memorable, or I never actually managed to do it. Probably both, we don't get too many movies that are worth watching after 11:00pm or so in any case.
Give some thought to that first Christmas today, and have a wonderful Friday in Christ!
Bucky
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