Thursday, April 15, 2010

Here There Be Dragons

Today I saw the film "How to Train Your Dragon." It's a GREAT movie, and I recommend it to everyone.

I guess you could say that it's about things not being the way they seem. Maybe something you think is bad really isn't. Maybe something you think is bad really protects you from something else, something you don't want to see and shouldn't ever see.

Maybe the opposite is true as well, that behind something that seems too beautiful hides a deep darkness, something broken.

Behind the beautiful dragon lurks something else: not everything is as it seems. At the same time, the dragon-as-scary, as terrible, is not quite what you expected. Difficulties and trials and sufferings...the places we find God. I try to tell myself that every time my medical stuff plunges me down into terrible places. In the darkness is the One Who is not afraid of the dark, with Whom dwell both the darkness and the light.

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