A Christian friend of mine recently pointed out that maybe I was 'meant to get sick' for this week, well personally I've never been THAT 'Calvinistic' in my beliefs, but encountering him recently reminded me of something else another Christian told me before: "If it happens, then it's God's will..." After having a discussion with her about that statement, I realized that she wasn't asserting that everything that happens is because God 'wanted' it to happen, but rather she was reminding us that nothing can happen unless God 'permits' it to, like in the example of when Satan needed God's permission in order to 'test' Job [Job 2:7].
Anyhow, not too sure perhaps why I decided to get into that above intro so much, perhaps it is a good prelude to my commentary on this movie though, because one of the themes of this movie is that things that our futures are also written based on all the things that happen in the present and past, regardless of whether we want these things to happen or not. For those of you who also watch Star Trek, this is known as 'the timeline' and is based on a belief that every event has an effect on a future event and if past events are changed, the future is consequently also altered.
To run or 'spoil' as little of the movie as possible, I will also just say that something like this happens to the main character in which his 'timeline' is altered by visitors from the future and he needs to fix it in order to prevent a possible timeline that will lead to 'mass destruction'. The moral of this movie is that we may at times consider ourselves insignificant when really we are important or as my other friend likes to quote Marianne Williamson, "we are powerful beyond measure" [http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/122.html]
TODAY:
2 Corinthians 3:2-3New International Version (NIV)
2 You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everyone. 3 You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stonebut on tablets of human hearts.
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