4th of July

Jul 4, 2008 at 11:54 PM
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We made these shirts yesterday. The kids had a great time. Today we went to breakfast at our favorite local place, bought some appliances on sale at Lowe's, went to see WALL-E and stayed up really late watching fire works down town. I love spending time with just the 6 of us. It is so sweet!

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Just the six of you? You make it sound like its you and another person....when actually its your big honkin' family. I love big families :)

Btw, Madalyn (is that how you spell her name?) looks so much like you in that picture of all of the girls...tell her I think she looks beautiful in the picture. She really looks mature, wow.

Wall-E was great. Did you catch all of the Noah's ark and Adam and EVE symbolism?

Eve is like the dove going out to find a branch so that the inhabitants of the ark can return safely.

At the beginning, Wall-E is all alone without a helper suitable for him. He has his work and his "animal companion" (if you can call it that), but it wasn't good until Eve came. And only then, the two of them together could move the story forward. History stays the same, repetitive and boring, day after day, when there is only one, and there is no diversity. (Look at Islamic nations and their monad god for an example of this.) Add the female to the male, and great things start to happen. There are exchanges of sacrifice and service and glory. (Like in a Trinitarian culture.)

I also loved how at the end of the movie the tree grows out of the boot. A work boot. The stewardship and care of the earth is the outgrowth of human labor. Humans belong here, and the earth flourishes under faithful human labor.

Also - it shows that the earth is the true home of humans, for better or worse. Our home is not some far distant safe place, or "heaven", where we can be big fat lazy babies, but our home is here on earth where God created us to live and work.