Finding Inspiration in odd places...

...such as rabbits in waste coats.

I think media is something to be taken with a grain of salt most of the time. However, the Lord can indeed work all things for good, and movies and music are not an exception. For example, I recently found myself watching Alice in Wonderland (Tim Burton's recent remastering), and by the time the film was over, I found myself in a rather strange place. I had just finished watching a film which spent most of its time quoting poetry and and referencing writings that my pitiful non-english-major mind could not even begin to fathom (how does one spell Jaberwalky? Jabberwakky? Jibberwikkle?), when suddenly I found my relationship with God deepening. The line that stuck with me was this:

"My father once told me that he sometimes came up with as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Think on that for a second or seventeen. When one first hears this, its absurdity almost masks the depth of what it claims. A human man makes the statement that he is capable of bringing to his mind six or more things which would be considered by this world to be impossible. If one thinks on this with scripture in mind, it doesn't seem that difficult. These just come off the top of my head.

1. A woman can be turned into salt.

2. A man can survive for any length of time inside of a whale.

3. Water can be turned into blood.

4. Water can be turned into wine.

5. A man can be raised from the dead.

6. A God would give up His son for a people who had turned from Him.

So, if a mere man can look to scripture and easily find six things which the world would see as impossible, how many more can the God, who crafted scripture, think up? I don't think Tim Burton would be terribly happy with me for this, but his film helped me to be convicted to the fact that I have allowed my God to become too small. We serve a God who has done an innumerable amount of things which go far beyond our realm of understanding. I see no reason why we should think that He should not continue to do so. In light of this, let us continue to believe that our God is creative enough to do things we could never imagine, and hopefully expect that He will shine His creative love upon us.

This, however, is just my experience. You'll need to find your own rabbit in a waste coat.

With His love, and hopefully His grace,

Taylor