Primer is a movie in which I couldn't understand pretty much anything the characters were talking about, they could have been speaking in another language. I couldn't really understand the chronology of the plot. Basically, in general, I couldn't understand much of anything that was going on in the movie. But, I loved it. And, I keep thinking about it. If you like short, brain-teaser movies, this is one for you.
And, after you're done, here are info-graphics for you:
Oh the desert dreams of a river
That will run down to the sea
Like my heart longs for an ocean
To wash down over me
Oh won't you take me from this valley
To that mountain high above
Oh I will pray, pray, pray till I see your smiling face
I will pray, pray, pray to the one that I love
Oh the outcast dreams of acceptance
Just to find pure love's embrace
Like an orphan longs for its mother
May you hold me in your grace
Oh won't you take me from this valley
To that mountain high above
Oh I will pray, pray, pray till I see your smiling face
I will pray, pray, pray to the one that I love
Oh the caged bird dreams of a strong wind
That will flow beneath her wings
Like a voice longs for a melody
Oh Jesus, carry me
Oh won't you take me from this valley
To that mountain high above
Oh I will pray, pray, pray till I see your smiling face
I will pray, pray, pray to the one that I love
Here's a paragraph from Stanley Hauerwas defending the irrationality of faith in God. He's not claiming that Christianity will make sense to everyone. He's also not claiming that it will always make the world run more smoothly. He is claiming Christianity is true...and, that there's a bit of arrogance to believing that we can discover on our own power what is right or wrong or true about the world.
"An ethic claiming to be 'rational' and universally valid for all thinking people everywhere is incipiently demonic because it has no means of explaining why there are still people who disagree with its prescriptions of behavior, except that these people must be 'irrational' and, therefore (since 'rationality' is said to be our most important human characteristic), subhuman." - Resident Aliens, 101
There is a simple concept (axiom) that I heard from Bill Hybels called "This is church". I think of often, almost every week. "This is church" means that you and I don't define what it means to 'do church'...there's an element of trusting that the situations we come into every day are God determining what the "job" actually looks like. Church life as a pastor (or, a church member) is not simply important projects, lesson planning, etc. It's the interruptions as well. I think this principle is true for anyone in any career.
