Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Lord of the Rings
Gavin and and I are watching Lord of the Rings tonight and it remined me of my senior year of high school when i was deathly ill with mono and somehow convinced mom and dad to let me go see the midnight showing of this movie with Andy and, I believe, Mark Holyfield. Afterwards i couldn't even go to sleep because i was so profoundly impacted by some of the themes in the film. I can rememeber sitting in my bed at 4:30 in the morning, puffy and swollen from the mono, totally energized by the idea that we as people of God are part of a bigger story...a story that is far beyond our own imagining...My senior year in particular i felt really antsy and wrote a lot of poems about adventures and traveling and experiencing something totally "other". So the bigger purpose that little Frodo was meant to do struck a chord in me i guess.
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I remember letting you go against some part of better judgment. I suppose we thought it would be something you might love...I'm thankful for Tolkien--I regret that I didn't have his and Lewis' images in my mind as I was growing up.
ReplyDeleteBack in the day a friend and I used to talk about wanting something hugely important to do like Frodo had. Now I've got an unbelievably important job with little people's souls in the balance, and I keep wishing I were back safe and quiet in my hobbit hole....
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i know katie...there is something much less daunting about going to mordor than watching over those boys that you love so much...that's not sarcasm. I honestly feel much less intimidated by a "mordor" type adventure.
ReplyDeletenot to mention that the even greater purpose is one we have yet to (fully) realize...already, but not yet fully.
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ReplyDeletethat was nathan up there
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