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ALIVE!!!

Watched the Guardian the other night. Wow, such a good movie.  I got it free at my SIFE competition in Dallas, TX... compliments of the MPA. But that's not the point. I enjoy the context and content of the movie.

One of my favorite quotes is from Maggie:
                                                                                                 If my muscles hurt, it just means I've used them.
                                                                                             If it hurts to walk up the stairs,
                                                                                          it's just cause I've done it a hundred times                                                                                               to lay down next to a man who loved me.
                                          My face may have wrinkles,
        but I have laid under hundreds of skies on sunny days.
                                                               I look like this, well,
                                                                       because I drank
                                                                              and I smoked 
                                                                                       and I lived
                                                                                         and I loved
                                                                                        and I screwed
                                                     my way through a pretty damn good life.
     Getting old isn't bad.
                                                                                                                               It's earned.

It kinda goes along with the quote that I jacked from Melissa last month. The whole point about living isn't about dying.... but how you've lived before you die. Life shouldn't be something that's considered regrettable.... but utterly remarkable.

Another thought I had during this movie it how easy it is to draw the connection between what the Coast Guard does and what Christ has done. The very end of the movie it fades out and the text reads "So that others may live." Oh my gosh, it gets me.... every time. I mean all throughout this movie these mean and women have to endure so many crazy conditions and scenarios. And I repeatedly said aloud how I just could not do it. Just think about the end guys... I dont want to spoil it for you slackers who have yet to see it.... you heard, I called you a slacker.... now after you finish reading this.... go watch the movie. :) But just the initial act of what happens at the end it was Christ did for us. I've been saying that I've felt spiritually dry this month, but that thought washed over me two nights again and hit me like a wave just now. For those of you who have seen it.... you know what I'm talking about, right? And slackers.... um..... bring the tissues.

Okay, one more deep ponderment I'm gonna leave you with. I heard this song late the night I was driving back home from the WU after the Easter program and Lakeview. It was very late and I was very tired, but I never forgot this song... It has stayed with me. It's Ludacris' Runaway Love. Now, I know the rest of his "work" is sketchy. But this song just hits hard. It's three scenarios of what some kids actually have to go through and how they consider "home is a place called hell." It's really powerful and the music video is quality. Like I don't know how to describe it exactly.... I just know that this song has kinda helped me further realize what all the world is like, and how life is like for many children.
                                                                                                                                        It saddens me.




                I miss Africa, too.