The Natural

I was watching The Natural... as I watched it I wondered what made it such a good movie.

It's about a guy that has all the talent in the world, with potential to be the greatest, but he makes bad choices, throws away opportunities and has to decide what to do. In the end after he has sold out, he changes his mind and redeems himself.

That's when it hit me...what makes him, Robert the Bruce(Braveheart), Major Duncan Heyward(Last of the Mohicans), and many others in the movies that we love, all great characters...is redemption. They all change the track that they were headed down and become exactly who we all knew they could and should be. The fact that they seek redemption allows us to give it, and we always do.

These movies are our lives... or at least mine. We head down tracks and routes that we know we shouldn't. We make decisions that are wrong. We cause pain to ourselves and others. We disappoint our loved ones, friends, and our Lord, but as long as we seek the redemption and change...we will find it.

Not sure why this was on my mind and definitely not sure why I felt the need to write it.

Who says I need to go to work??????

It hit me today... I'm not being lazy because I haven't worked in a long time, I'm taking my sabbath. Some people sabbaths come once a week, at times I don't get it once a week. This "vacation" that I am taking is an accumulated sabbaths that I didn't take and don't get to take when I am working. How 'bout that... does that sound better than I just don't feel like going back to work?????