How Superman should have ended

Too funny!!

Long time, no bloggin'

I'm not sure why it's taken me this long to step back into the blog world. That's probably a completely different post! I just wanted to shout out and say a huge public thank you that I live in a world where God is in control. God exists, and he (and good) will ultimately triumph!!

What brought this on was a somewhat tramatic experience I had last night. Some friends came over for our first weekly movie night of the summer. (Wednesday nights at my house, for those of you in town!) Anyway - one of the gang requested we watch Sin City. I had not seen this film, but I'd heard many, many things about how great it was. I was looking forward to the experience. Wow. It was definitely an experience. Even now, I'm not sure what I think about it.

One of the guys said something I thought was really insightful. He said that in this film -- God is dead and good is relative. Yes. This film goes to edge of what the world would be like if that was true. If God really didn't exist and good really did depend on circumstances and perspective -- we might be in a world like Basin City. There was no character who acted heroically. Even the two characters that we might see as the "good guys," really weren't. One, Marv, was a mass murderer who tortured others gleefully to find the information he was seeking. The fact that he was trying to revenge the death of a young woman and ultimately killed her canabalistic killer, doesn't really change the fact that his methods were horrific. The other, Hardigan, seemed to be making good choices that led to horrific consequences. Yet, even he was convinced to do something he originally thought was wrong by a young woman he wanted to protect.

Every decision in the film seemed to be driven by the needs of the moment. What makes you feel good? What will protect you? What will make someone else hurt? There was never a thought beyond that immediate future. No thought of what was right. It truly was a movie about Sin City.

I woke up several times in the night, thanking God for being there. Just the fact that he exists is worthy of praise!! I'm so grateful that he has set up the rules for our world. Wether we acknowledge them or not -- they exist. Good is good, and evil is evil. Sometimes the lines get blurry, and it's hard to tell exactly where we stand -- but God knows, and I believe that he leads us in the path we should go.

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." Psalm 23:4 KJV