Gethsemane

Here are some reasons to why you should not 'read' this post:

1. It will completely spoil a movie for you if you haven't already watched it, and I really would not want that to happen. So if you haven't watched Se7en, and you want to, you probably shouldn't continue 'reading' this post.

2. The clips are dark and disturbing.

3. If you are sensitive to swear words, every third word that Brad Pitt's character utters is a swear word.

Now, having washed my hands clean of any guilt of making you watch it, here's the clip:



You get the intensity right? You get the struggle. You feel the dementedness. And then, there is a part of you, that keeps repeating in your head: "Ok, don't pull the trigger. DO NOT PULL THE TRIGGER" and yet when it is pulled there is a there is no anger, but a resignation of our fallenness. Somewhere you go back heavy hearted saying, "I know. You are human. It's ok. I would do the same."

"And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground." - Luke 22 : 44

Gethsemane was intense too.

And, He did what I would not do. He stood up, crushed the head of the serpent, and went to the cross.

That is why I worship Him.

Magic

"Why were you so different last term?" said Jill presently.  

"A lot of queer things happened to me in the hols," said Eustace mysteriously.  

"What sort of things?" asked Jill.  

Eustace didn't say anything for quite a long time. Then he said:  

"Look here, Pole, you and I hate this place about as much as anybody can hate anything, don't we?"  

"I know I do," said Jill.  

"Then I really think I can trust you."  

"Dam' good of you," said Jill.  

"Yes, but this is a really terrific secret. Pole, I say, are you good a believing things? I mean things that everyone here would laugh at?" 

"I've never had the chance," Said Jill, "but I think I would be."  

"Could you believe me if I said I'd been right out of the word - outside this world - last hols?"  

"I wouldn't know what you meant."  

"Well, don't let's bother about worlds then. Supposing I told you I'd been in a place where animals can talk and where there are - er - enhancements and dragons - and - well, all the sorts of things you have in fairy -tales." Scrubb felt terribly awkward as he said this and got red in the face. 

"How would you get there?" said Jill. She also felt curiously shy.  

"The only way you can - by Magic"