October 22
A Picture of Life
I am the resurrection and the life. … And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
John 11:25a, 44 (NKJV)
He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.
Romans 8:11b (NKJV)
One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1996 film, Enchanted April. “But,” you may say, “that’s a chick flick. What’s a macho guy like you doing watching stuff like that?”
Good question, but even more puzzling, “Why do I enjoy it so much?” What’s so special about six or seven people traveling to a six-bedroom castle on the Mediterranean for a month to smell flowers and soak up the sun?
The answer is resurrection, and the powerful feeling of life breathed back into one’s soul.
The film's early scenes show us these common British souls, unknowing slaves, grinding their way through life in bondage to someone or something. Life isn’t life and it’s anything but satisfying, but it’s all they know. And so, the adventure begins....
Enchanted April is a story of new, rediscovered and restored relationships. We travel from the dark, dreary, and deceitful to bright, transparent splendor. Sure, it’s a romance. Yes, we see wives basking in their husbands’ rekindled love; and yes, Mr. Briggs eventually does discover Lady Caroline; and old Mrs. Fisher, restored to better health, learns to appreciate new and living friends.
Yes, yes. It’s all quite rosy. But it is also about risk—about one person going out on a limb, doing something good and right and in so doing, making life so much better for so many others. One person and one act can make a difference.
As the story ends, not one but seven vibrant people stroll past fields of white flowers, yet the beauty of the moment is unending as they are changed people, and the fragrance of memory returns with them to their gray English skies.
What I love about this film is this powerful presentation of resurrection. To me, it is a picture of finding real life—new life in Christ, and the story touches me, because it is my story. I have been lifted from the dull and dreary, from the life I felt hardly worth living to an Enchanted April of my own—a love affair with the life He has given.
Lord, bless so many more with Your resurrection life! Amen.
A Picture of Life
I am the resurrection and the life. … And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Loose him, and let him go.”
John 11:25a, 44 (NKJV)
He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies.
Romans 8:11b (NKJV)
One of my all-time favorite movies is the 1996 film, Enchanted April. “But,” you may say, “that’s a chick flick. What’s a macho guy like you doing watching stuff like that?”
Good question, but even more puzzling, “Why do I enjoy it so much?” What’s so special about six or seven people traveling to a six-bedroom castle on the Mediterranean for a month to smell flowers and soak up the sun?
The answer is resurrection, and the powerful feeling of life breathed back into one’s soul.
The film's early scenes show us these common British souls, unknowing slaves, grinding their way through life in bondage to someone or something. Life isn’t life and it’s anything but satisfying, but it’s all they know. And so, the adventure begins....
Enchanted April is a story of new, rediscovered and restored relationships. We travel from the dark, dreary, and deceitful to bright, transparent splendor. Sure, it’s a romance. Yes, we see wives basking in their husbands’ rekindled love; and yes, Mr. Briggs eventually does discover Lady Caroline; and old Mrs. Fisher, restored to better health, learns to appreciate new and living friends.
Yes, yes. It’s all quite rosy. But it is also about risk—about one person going out on a limb, doing something good and right and in so doing, making life so much better for so many others. One person and one act can make a difference.
As the story ends, not one but seven vibrant people stroll past fields of white flowers, yet the beauty of the moment is unending as they are changed people, and the fragrance of memory returns with them to their gray English skies.
What I love about this film is this powerful presentation of resurrection. To me, it is a picture of finding real life—new life in Christ, and the story touches me, because it is my story. I have been lifted from the dull and dreary, from the life I felt hardly worth living to an Enchanted April of my own—a love affair with the life He has given.
Lord, bless so many more with Your resurrection life! Amen.
posted by Craig Soderquist at 7:27 AM
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