Dragons are Pure Awesome

When I was at Disneyland a couple of days ago I impulsively bought Pete's Dragon.
I am trying to learn which ones to follow because its the Holy Spirit and not my own. It's hard to tell the difference if you're not really in step with God.

Pete's Dragons just so happens to be one of my all time favorite movies that I had practically forgotten about. There is nothing in it that I don't love. As with all my favorite movies I must have watched it a thousand times driving my mom crazy.

Elliot is my favorite dragon. Why? Because he's pure through and through. He exists to seek and to save.

Sound familiar?

I was absolutely floored to realize that Elliot could easily be one of the best examples of the Holy Spirit in movies that I know of.

At first no one can see him but Pete, but they can see where he's been by the what he leaves behind. But even though his footprints are all over the town they don't believe he exists, then that disbelief turns to fear. They blame the Dragon for the shifting of the fishing shoals and Nora (the Lighthouse keeper) doesn't believe Pete when he says that Elliot has found her supposedly dead fiance. The town's fear turns to violence against Pete and Elliot.

Why?

They don't have the eyes to see and they misunderstand who Elliot is no matter what Pete says. From the beginning it is evident that Pete and Elliot are inseparable best friends. Elliot protects, guides, and provides for Pete very much like the Holy Spirit will guide, protect, and embolden us who allow God to become our best friend and every pleasure.

By the end all have seen and believe.

I just love everything about this movie, its just a joyful, funny, music filled romp.

I love how God lets us see with new eyes what once we loved as children and still delight in it.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

James 3:17-18

That dern Volcano

[Source: Online Schools for Gadling.com]

Transformer

Spring Cleaning

I just finished reorganizing and cleaning my entire room closet and all. The only thing that didn't move was my desk. Everything else is flipped. I also got a some privacy cling things for my window so that I can just leave my blinds up making my room lighter. One of the window things has a stained glass pattern that is actually textured making it look fairly real if you ignore the fact that it doesn't cover all of my window. Given how much time I spend in my room the whole thing was very needed. My room actually looks bigger now.

NICE.

What just hit me though is the process of rearranging. Before I started my room was a mess, first thing I had to do was make it more messy to organize before I could move anything. So my room went from being messy to natural disaster for the last couple of days, but the entire time I was working steadily toward this new arrangement. I was struck by the thought that perhaps God has to do the same thing when he wants to take us from one stage of life to another. At first everything just keeps getting messier as things are moved around, but then as you start putting things in their new places the mess subsides finally you have a new room that shows no indication of the disaster it was just before or the room it had been. Maybe this is how God makes big changes in us, it has to get a little messy before it comes together on the other side.

I'm certainly hoping that this is the case for me, I'm just praying that I'm in the stage where things are starting to get cleaned up rather than more messy...

I guess that's my attempt to have a deep thought tonight.

Broad Observation

All the things that the Bible tell me are good or bad for me all make sense at their root, even if they don't at the surface. Things that society/government/school/establishment tell are good or bad often don't hold up under intense investigation of roots and consequences unless they correlate directly with Biblical teaching.

Why is it that we are more inclined to give society/government/school/establishment more credence than the Bible? One has been around much longer than the other. One has weathered every attack upon it from without and within and always come out stronger in the end.

But people don't see this.

Why?

Is it because it is so hard to see, or is it that they have never actually looked beyond what culture tells them?

It seems the vast majority of the world spends their lives blind, even those who pride themselves on their intellect have blind spots if even they can see at all. Christians and heathen thinkers alike have these blind spots. The advantage of the Christian thinker is they have God to see for them when they cannot see themselves. It is then that they realize that any sight they ever had was God's.

That and as impressive as we are as a species the amount of a certain type of intellect and mind are required to even want to pull back the veil we all see the world through, because what we see on the other side is so massively complex that even the best and brightest minds can only begin to comprehend it.

There is always another black box. Something that doesn't fit. As far as we have come in science and philosophy those who practice them at their highest levels balk at how little we still know.

The mere claim that "science disproves God" is ridiculous. Science has proven nothing of the sort! There is no science in which knowledge is absolute. I know of no science that is dead, only evolved. Astrology laid the foundations of astronomy. Just because we figured out the sun wasn't pulled across the sky by a chariot does not disprove a creator of the universe. (It does not stop there but I am unless asked.)

The only way that science could ever disprove God is... well science in it's current practice could never do such a thing. Science only covers the physical world which we can measure by physical means. Even if we could see to the very point of creation would anyone really expect to see some huge dude, or any thing at all? The question remains, "Where did it ALL come from?"

We exist.

How?

But more importantly WHY?

Hmmm Tasty

I have never wanted to learn to cook more in my entire life!

But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior;
therefore my persecutors will stumble;
they will not overcome me.
They will be greatly shamed,
for they will not succeed.
Their eternal dishonor
will never be forgotten.
—Jeremiah 20:11

I hate the Internet

I hate the internet, but I spend a huge amount of time here. Why? Because it is useful. But unfortunately I must hang out in the parts of the internet which are least suited to me. It just seems like the most relevant social spaces on the interwebs are loudly dominated by those whose basic views of reality are almost opposite of my own. I must just have an abrasive writing style or something.

Hated on the web, loved in life. Rather it be that way than the other way around.

I must Apologize

I don't write here much at the moment. Reasons being that I just don't have anything pressing to say. Or at least I haven't in a while.

Mercator is still sorta on hold, but that'll change soon. I have some major world building to do even for the second book.

Still no work. But I really should try harder, i.e. really try at all. I'm not sure checking craigslist 3x a day counts as trying. I've got two new resources that I haven't utilized yet.

I'm feeling drawn back to school for two reasons. One being Mercator/RTE requires a background in church history and theology that I don't have yet. The other being that I feel pulled toward apologetics which is what Mercator really is. We need some major apologists in the Film world, I know of none of the caliber that are needed to really make an impact on my jaded generation. Here am I, send me. I'm rather sure that this is the reason I'm in CA. I feel I need to stay in LA, though it may just be because my world is here now, most of my friends and the SCA community that I've become a part of. I'm tiered of moving, it's been nice to live in one place for more than a year and I'd like to stay. I still can't say I love the city, but I love the people. In reality it'll be a year before any move or schooling would start so I don't need to stress right now. Just be ready and explore my options. In the mean time I'll keep pursuing Script Supervising. I really hope I'll start making some money soon, the end of my funds is approaching too near for comfort.

That's all, just a check in.

I'll keep in touch. :P