Happy 2025!

 

Happy 2025! I am so glad that we made it to the New Year! I think 2025 will be great! 

So, let's talk about how I have already bit off a little bit more than I can chew. 

I am only doing on project again this year, but I will be doing it in many parts. This year big theme is Faith. 

This is not something that  I have hidden before in the past. One part of a former project I was trying to incorporate my faither into one of many parts. This time I am going to make it the whole part. 

So, How do I make movies play into this? Well, There are two ways. The first is that one of this big things that a movie need is a director. God is the Director of my life. He can give suggestions, and I can choose to listen to them or not. That what a director of movie does, well at least the good ones. They guide the actors, and everyone else, to be the best that they can be, and give suggestions to do something one way or another. 

So, I am going to watch the whole works of one director this year, and that man is Shawn Levy. The reason that I picked him is that he seems so nice, and supportive, and I don't think I have ever heard a bad thing about him, so I would like to support what he does. He also directed Deadpool and Wolverine which was one of the best movies last year, and he did the Night at the Museum series, which I loved! Plus, he has a long career working in movies but only 16 theatrical releases as a director. 

The other things that I am going to do if follow this great little Bible Study guild called Jesus Loves Movies  By Phil Strangolagalli. This has 30 different movies that he uses to show God's love, grace, and mercy to use through this art of storytelling. They are not Christian movies, they are all types! Animated, action, drama, and even scary! I'm going to divvy these out to the to make them fit into the year. 

  

The other thing I will be doing is finding a book, or study guide, on one book of the Bible every month and reading that to help understand the Bible better. I don't need to be an expert but I would like to learn more. 

This project is going to be called "There They Are And There They'll Stay" as said my Glinda in The Wizard of Oz to Dorothy when the Ruby Red Slippers appear on her feet after the death of the Wicked Witch of the East. 

Now, why the Ruby Slippers and not the great and powerful Oz himself? Oz is only proven to be a mere moral after the whole journey that the gang sets on. That he had not real power, and while he helped them to feel better about themselves, he did it with no magic, and not power. He just saw the best in them and did the best that they could. 

The Slippers where always lying in wait to be used. Glinda tells Dorothy at the end of the movie that she had the power to go home the whole time, she just had to believe (or have faith) in them to get her home. That is much like God. He is always waiting to help, heal, provide, and care for you if only you had the faith to reach out and ask. Dorothy traveled with and was always in the presence of the slippers from the moment that she arrived in Oz. She didn't know if for the first few minutes until it was pointed out to her. Like use growing up and learning about the world. Then the show were one her feet when the Enemy, the Wicked Witch of the West, tried to take them for herself. The devil wants all of the power! He wants all of the control and will try and steal you faith if you aren't careful! 

She walked for miles, and day in the slippers know, for whatever reason, that they were special and that they would protect her, even thought she was being attacked by WWW the whole time. They led her to great friends that love and care for her, and kept her from being harmed and killed. 

The Ruby Red Slippers were the only real thing that Dorothy knew that she had to protect and trust no matter what it cost her.

That is what faith in God should look like and I want my faith to look like that! 

So, I'm going to make sure that I put God first this year, and then follow his word, and really try to study it this year too.