I have so much on my heart and mind right now, I don’t even know where to start. I’ll start with the most recent, I suppose. I went to see “The Help” tonight. Right when it was over, I knew I wanted to write about it. I wasn’t sure how it would come across. I don’t want to offend anyone; in fact, I want to do the opposite and empower others to begin to write, think, and speak more about this issue.

This movie was so amazing. I’m at a loss of where to start. This movie was just too good. I am just so glad that someone would make such a great and inspirational film. It seems as if it is not often that someone has the guts to follow through with a movie like this, but when they do, it is a great thing. I couldn’t stop crying. When the movie was over, I looked back at the crowd and half of the theater was wiping their eyes right along with me.

Living in Southern California my whole life, it is hard to understand how a world like that could even exist. I am not used to the idea of blacks and whites not getting along and, even a step further than that, hating each other. They were living in a world where whites (my ethnicity) hated the blacks. One of my best friends, Kayla, is half black and half white. She is amazing and I love her to death. It is unfathomable to think that I could be living in a world where her birth would be completely out of the question.

The Lord, in Ephesians 2, constantly talks about how there is no longer a wall up of hostility. All ethnicities and nations can come and worship him with freedom. He shows the same grace to me, a white girl, as he does to Kayla, my best friend. This truth is remarkable.

On the way home from the movie, my friends and I were talking about how racism still occurs around the world, but even closer to home, it happens right in the Southern States of America. This makes me so angry. It makes me so sad. It makes me want to cry all over again. Knowing that a person who only has a different skin color than me is treated with such disdain and hatred makes me sick to my stomach. If the Lord says that there is no difference in Christ Jesus, what makes it right for people to make faulty declarations about them.  My challenge for everyone reading this, if you haven’t already, would be to watch “The Help” ASAP. Once you watch it, think about how the Lord and how his grace has saved you. Think about how you can make a difference in someones life like the woman in the movie, Skeeter, did. Standing up for truth and having courage while doing so is difficult, but so worth it even if you don’t get to see the truth come full circle like many of these women probably didn’t get to see.

Amazing.

I suppose I am not going to write about anything else. I am fading fast…I am so tired…

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery” (Galatians 5:1 ESV).

“For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.”
(Ephesians 2:14-16 ESV)