Thirsty Thursday - Jesus in a Speedo!

Our youngest daughter, Sarah, is on the swim team. She loves it! She wears her swimsuit to church (under her dress), and she wears her fins (you and I call them flippers) around the house. I have even come in occasionally to find her watching TV while wearing her goggles! She can’t wait to get to swim, and she never fusses, even when she swims a mile (with very little rest) during practice. She just can’t get enough.

She has two new swim suits that she just got this month. Every time I see her standing up there in her blue Speedo suit, with her little pink goggles and swim cap, I can’t help but see Jesus, because, you see, Jesus gave her the wonderful new blue Speedo. And while, in her mind, she just got a new groovy swimsuit, in my mind, God taught me a wonderful lesson. He taught me to truly understand the concept of giving and receiving.

2 Corinthians 8:15 says, “The one who gathered much did not have too much, and the one who gathered little did not have too little.” I have experienced the receiving half of this verse, but now I desire to experience the giving half the way it has been shown to me.

In the last 3 months, God has given us so many blessings, from money for a mission trip, to family blessings, to …. yep, you guessed it - a Speedo! God showed us, through a precious family who gave us a TON of clothes (that they could have sold for a lot of money), how to TRULY give. On a beautiful Thursday afternoon, our three girls were able to find clothes, shoes, swimsuits, jackets, jammies, etc, enough to make a new wardrobe each (literally). Through that sweet family, God taught me the principle of giving. Not just the “collect our OLD things and put them in the drop box“, but to really give. He has stirred in me the desire to be able to give the way this precious family has done - and more!

Thank God for all of our blessings - especially the blue Speedo!!

Movie Monday - Favorite Character Type

For this week's movie topic, what is your favorite TYPE of character? Do you like the strong, sweet, bad, complex, simple-minded, etc? For instance, my favorite is the underdog. I love to see the weak, sick, misunderstood sap come out on top.

Some of my favorite characters are....oh, there are so many:

I love Edward Scissorhands in Edward Scissorhands - he's so kind and innocent, but no one understands him.

I love Ed Wood in Ed Wood - he's totally eccentric and misunderstood and horrible as a director, but boy did he have passion.

I love Elle Woods in Legally Blonde - she's the exact opposite of the rest of the Harvard Law students, but she outshined them all, while being true to herself.

I love Billie Dawn in Born Yesterday - she showed that you can be just as smart as all the rest of the people, smarter actually because she was authentic, and still be herself.

I love Michael Oher (and Leigh Anne Tuohy, for that matter)in The Blind Side.

I love Louanne Johnson in Dangerous Minds, Mark Thackeray in To Sir With Love, and Erin Gruwell in Freedom Writers - they did not accept that her students were failures just because of their race, economic standing, or anything else.

I love Frances Ouimette in The Greatest Game Ever Played (as I've already stated in the previous post). Really like him.

I love Akeelah in Akeelah and the Bee.

I love V from V for Vendetta.

I love Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness.

I love Beatrix Potter in Miss Potter.

I love Wesley Gibson in Wanted.

And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on, and on....

So, what type do you like? And who are some examples?