B-movies

You know, you have to watch an older, low-budget film once in a while to really appreciate the level of production that go into our modern mainstream movie. Tonight I watched "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". It was sooooo cheesy, Yet, I must say that it was a much better movie than Peter Jackson's first feature length film "Bad Taste". I mean by more than a mile. More like a hundred miles. Really, watching these killer tomatoes hearkens back to a specific childhood memory of mine. When I was 4 my family moved out of this duplex, and as we were moving our stuff out one Saturday morning, I recall sitting in front of the tv watching the animated television version of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". I had never been able to see the actual movie until now, and I must say that it was not half bad. For that sort of thing you know? The sort of movie where the bad guys are either close-up's of produce, or car-sized paper-mache recreations of said produce. All in all though, I think my favorite parts were the song and dance numbers. They cracked me up. Just so random. Poorly done, and random.
One thing you really have to appreciate though, is that there is none of that CGI or anything. A lot of the tomatoe scenes you think to yourself, "I could do that myself with just a camera, some tomatoes, a ton of craft supplies, and way too much spare time!"

Follow

It's kind of funny. As a Christian, in the environment of a Christian college, one hears about "wanting God to lead their lives" or "if God would just lead me to where He wants me to be, I would be happy". I am speaking from my own personal experience hear as I have said and felt such things on many occasion. The funny part is that we want God to lead, but then we don't do anything. We just think "Well, I don't feel anything, so I must just need to wait for God to get on the ball and send me some instructions." Or maybe "People say that it isn't a good idea, and they're older and more experienced than I, so this probably isn't really God's leading."
God always leads us, we just need to follow. We can't stand still waiting for some vague "sign", we have to move forward and trust God to that we are headed in the right direction. If we aren't, then God will let us know. If we're just standing at base camp waiting for further instructions we'll never scale the mountain, because we'll have never tried. God isn't going to just beam us to the top of the mountain. To be lead, we have to follow. We have to move. Don't get me wrong, time spent determing which direction to set out in is time well spent. But we have to set out in a direction, we cannot just wait for a step-by-step manual to the rest of our lives.
Life is not scripted, life is improv. Yet, there is still a story in it, and that story has always been there. It is our journey to discover it through our God-given gifts, and through our choices. We cannot change our story, we can only tell it differently, for the better or for the worse.

This post may be full of contradictions, please point them out if you have the patience to examine it more critically. Merry Christmas.