The Adjustment Bureau

I recently watched the movie "The Adjustment Bureau" with my dad. It was interesting..... can generate some great discussion for us as Christians, especially regarding freewill and the Sovereignty of God. In the movie Matt Damon's character falls in love with a girl who he wasn't actually supposed to meet and so the Chairman, the man who controls everyone's destiny, and his agents, need to make "adjustments" to correct their story and get it back on track. But Matt's character is fighting them to be with the woman he loves.

Here is an excerpt from the Gospel Coalition blog on this movie:
 
"The Adjustment Bureau presents a world in which a sinister power above us moves our lives along a certain path, and true happiness is found in freeing ourselves from this power by exercising the power of our own will. Freedom from the power above is found by the application of the power within."

"But what if it's entirely the other way round? Suppose the dark, sinister power is not above us but within us. What if that dark power has attached itself to you and become part of who you are? What if it has infiltrated your choices so that they are no longer as free as you would like to think, but are weighted and biased against your own best interest? What if the enemy is not above but within?"

"If that were true, everything would be reversed. Instead of finding freedom from the power above by exercising the power within, your hope would lie in finding freedom from the power within by the intervention of the power above. And that gets to the heart of the gospel."

"The problem we face does not lie in God but in us. Our battle is not against a sinister sovereign but against the dark power of sin that lies in our own nature, affecting our thinking, feeling, remembering, imagining, and choosing."

"The Adjustment Bureau suggests that you need to make choices that will deliver you from a dark and sinister God. But the real story is about how you need the sovereign God to deliver you from the dark and sinister power that inhabits your choices. The film suggests that your will is supremely good and that God cannot be trusted. But the real story is that God is supremely good and that you dare not trust your own will. The Adjustment Bureau suggests that the best plan for your life is the one that originates with you. The real story is that pleasures beyond anything you can imagine are at God’s right hand, and he is able to deliver you from the self indulgent choices that would keep you from them."

Fibromyalgia Program

I wanted to make a quick comment that the Fibromyalgia Program at St.Joseph's Hospital was very worthwhile. I would highly recommend it to anyone who has Fibromyalgia.

"There is a difference between pain and suffering. Pain is in the body, but suffering is in the mind."

August Long Weekend

My neice Petra and I!

I did it!!

Thank you LORD!

I did it!!!!!

I completed my 1 year Bible reading schedule.
I was 3 months behind at one point, but I didn't give up and kept going and going and going and I finished it today!