All Quiet on the Western Front
I think I'm getting the hang of this snapshot blogging thingy. ;-)---
Watched The Pianist tonight. Terrific movie. Mind-numbing. Soul-numbing, unreal, the unspeakable horrors that were depicted. Powerful images of overwhelming fear and despair - dancing to feverishly played music at gunpoint, scooping up water to drink from a slimy pail, Nazi guards throwing an old man in a wheelchair over the balcony...
I nearly wept. Nearly. The horror began to numb as the movie progressed...it just doesn't click that this was actual history (the movie is based, loosely or tightly, on the memoirs of the real pianist, God forgive me for I have forgotten his Polish name).
What would I have done in such a situation? Would I wear that humiliating Jewish armband? Would I have joined the Jewish police? Would I have fought in the ghetto uprising?
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Only 20 days before I come back to Malaysia. Surreal. I'll return with 33 college credit hours under my belt, and (prayerfully so) kept at a 4.0 CGPA.
Finals are looming large in the not-so-distant future. I probably should start studying.
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Have started exercising again, if only a little - just a 20-30 minute brisk walk/jog at 7 am on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Have been challenged to make unhurried time for God. Also started reading through the whole Bible again (see previous post) - am now at Genesis 3. Watchwords thus far has been "God said...and it was so", and "Let there be light (order out of chaos)."
To think that I would pass up an opportunity for private, unhindered audience with the Creator of the Universe for more SLEEP? Faugh!! God have mercy on me, and fan that Flame in me again...
In Alpha & Omega yesterday, we saw in 2 Kings the example of King Hezekiah of Israel who refused to be fazed by the mockery and blackmail of King Sennacherib of Assyria, choosing instead to bring it in trust and faith before the King of all Kings.
"Now therefore, O Lord our God, I pray, save us from his hand, that the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are the Lord God, You alone." (2 Kings 19:19)
...and God thunders at the Assyrian assailants: "Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel." (v22)
If my God is for me, then who can be against me?
posted by Joel Chan @ 9:18 PM
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