More Than Today

Yesterday I took the day off and ended up watching two back to back movies in the morning. The first was Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It was fun to watch Indiana again and see him in a new "old" place with an old friend who betrays him and a new sidekick who ends up being his son. Good movie, fun to watch, and an interesting look at running into an old flame again after many years and discovering that the two of you had a child together that you knew nothing about. Ah, the surprises of life! This Indiana Jones had the 1950's communist menace as the foes as opposed to his earlier movies when he fought the Nazis. The second movie I watched had the Nazis as the foe. This movie was "Bonhoeffer, Agent of Grace." Quite a bit different kind of movie in many ways. Bonhoeffer was a pastor in Germany who early in the movie is in the United States in 1939 and has the opportunity to stay there. But he chooses to go back to Germany and be with ...

Every so often an idea strikes me (it seems seldom at times) and I am able to capture it in a song. This past week it happened again. The idea is that when we think "What have you done for me lately, God?" the answer is that "You were there with me...and You're here with me." God is with us through our doubts, troubles, and when things are going well. Here is a video look at this song.