God is so Good! And He Does the Unexpected!

I'm not very big on Halloween. It just wasn't a thing that we did every year at my house. So last night instead going to costume parties, my friend Shannon and I were going to see a musical and have a girls night out (single friends are very scarce these days). It's a long story but we didn't end up going. Instead we went over to the Marriot Hotel, across the street from Refuge, and sat in their nice, comfortable chairs and had a really good talk. It was just what I needed. Then we were invited to come over to a friend's house and play Monopoly. I had a blast! I was the banker. I love managing money. It was really funny...I forgot how serious people can be about Monopoly!

Tonight, I'm helping out our church with it's Harvest Festival. It's another opportunity to reach out to the community and it's another alternative to trick-or-treating. I'm the candy girl this year. I get to run all over the place and make sure that all the boothes have enough candy. I love seeing all the cute little kids dressed up for Halloween. Last year this cute little toddler was dressed up as a lady bug and she was so adorable! Anyway it should be a lot of fun. I was up late last night so I think I'm going to go take a nap.

What I think about "Saved"

Instead of going to Night Fall last night, which is like a spooky haunted house/show at Old Tucson, I went over to a friends house with a bunch of people and watched "Saved" with Mandy Moore. I had heard some things about it from friends and was interested in seeing it. After watching it I was pretty much disgusted.

The basic plot of the movie is about the perfect Christian girl who gets saved when she's little. She goes to the perfect Christian school, has the perfect Christian friends and boyfriend (which is fine...that's the first couple minutes of introduction...But after that the story goes down hill). Her life is dandy until her boyfriend tells her he's gay. She tries to make him un-gay (I know that's not a real word, for all of those grammar and spelling freaks out there) by sleeping with him and sacrificing her virginity for a good cause. His parents find out that he's gay and send him to a rehab facility. She finds out she's pregnant. Her Christian friends find out and make her an outcast and the only person who accepts her is the Jewish girl who is an outcast because she hasn't accepted Christ and goes to a Christian school. It all ends happily with the girl dating the PK, her ex-boyfriend seeing his roommate from rehab, her mother dating the pastor who's married and they had all learned to accept and each other for who they were as people.

The objective of the movie was basically to mock Christians, Christian private education, and Christ. It was probably PG-13...But it had bad language, sex, drug references, ect. Not a good movie to watch in mixed company, which we found out the hard way-which probably made the movie that much more horrible. "Saved" is the outside world's view of Christians. Some of it you couldn't help but laugh at, but most of it was bad. I think the thing that disturbed me more than the movie was that we didn't turn it off. Afterward driving home with my brother, I just couldn't stop thinking about that. Why don't we as Christians flee from this type of garbage? I am so guilty of this. Why is it that we feel we have to sit through and movie like this and justify that is has some redeeming qualities [it didn't]? I'm not trying to be judgmental...I just need to vent. And maybe God brought some good things out of watching this movie for me... I feel a lot more convicted about guarding my heart against stuff like that and it drew me closer to Christ. I guess God can create something wonderful out of some thing perverted.

Sorry for the delay in Comments!

I have just been so busy lately! Things are going well for me in Tucson! The semester is almost over and Christmas is just around the corner. Last night I attended a Ramadan Fast-a-than feast. The Muslim Student Association sponsored the event at the U of A. Third parties would donate money for each person that signed up for the fast and donate it to the food bank in Tucson. So me and a couple of friends signed up to learn about Ramadan and it was a really cool opportunity to talk about our faith and watch the eclipse.

It is two weeks exactly before I arrive in Norman, OK. I am so excited! I've been saving up money for "warm" clothes. This weekend me and my mom are going to hit the mall. Shopping always makes me smile. The Star Wars Trilogy is out on DVD and I've been thinking about buying it...But I might wait to get it for Christmas.

Last weekend I went with a bunch of girls to a Corn Maze. Yes, it's exactly what it sounds like. It was a huge maze constructed in the shape of a very familiar wildcat in a very vacant field of corn (we weren't allowed to pick the corn). We got lost for 2 hours and then managed to find our way out.

I haven't really had a chance to read anything new yet, which has been a bummer. Well I gotta go.