Another video, of greater importance

I created this because some time back I visited a refugee camp, and still think about it. I am not making any kind of political statement with this. Some people may cite all kinds of reason why people in this world live in such abject conditions...this video is not about reasons. It is about results. Please realize that this could have been your life...

As Christians we ought to be the first to have compassion on the suffering...and do what we can to heal them.

The video is a compiliation of other videos with some added pictures and comments of my own. The video needs editing still, but Windows Movie Maker keeps crashing when I open it...so I guess this is kinda as far as it goes. There is some repitition, but try to focus on the message, especially the last 3 minutes or so. The music is Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, quite possibly the most powerful music ever written.

Please let me know what you think

Book made into a movie?

So this friday I decided to a take a few hours off of the normal routine or work and study and watched a movie with a couple of friends. The movie was called Seven Pounds, with Will Smith. I am not sure if it is a new movie or what (I am so far out of touch with movie/entertainment news...) I wasn't sure about the film, it didn't look to great, and it started out kinda slow and strange. In fact, for the first half of the movie things didn't really make sense, however things started coming together. I won't give away much of the plot, but by the end of the movie I kept thinking about Silverstine's book the Giving Tree. The movie is about a guy who makes a terrible mistake, then spends the years after trying to do good to people. The thing that separates this movie from other "do good movies" is that this guy doesn't just give his money and time to be a feel-good philantropist. He gives himself. I mean real sacrifice. To what extent? you should watch and see. The movie makes you think (or it made me think) about what we really have in this life, especially since an old friend of our family recently passed away. It made me remember a quote I heard "the best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them away". I have to ask myself, how much am I willing to give of myself? do I really see other people's lives as greater than my own? I am really willing to sacrifice myself for others, even people I don't know? Is that not the example that Christ left us with? He who gave all he had, even his own blood, not to his friends (only), but moreso for his enemies.
As long as I live I will never know any greater Love or higher Virture than what I find in Jesus Christ. All I know that is good in life I find only in him. My first and final and only true goal in life is that I might find the grace to reflect even the smallest gleam of that Love to a world full of pain, suffering, and sorrow.

مُحْتَقَرٌ وَمَخْذُولٌ مِنَ النَّاسِ رَجُلُ أَوْجَاعٍ وَمُخْتَبِرُ الْحُزْنِ وَكَمُسَتَّرٍ عَنْهُ وُجُوهُنَا
مُحْتَقَرٌ فَلَمْ نَعْتَدَّ بِهِ. لَكِنَّ أَحْزَانَنَا حَمَلَهَا وَأَوْجَاعَنَا تَحَمَّلَهَا.
وَنَحْنُ حَسِبْنَاهُ مُصَاباً مَضْرُوباً مِنَ اللَّهِ وَمَذْلُولاً.
وَهُوَ مَجْرُوحٌ لأَجْلِ مَعَاصِينَا مَسْحُوقٌ لأَجْلِ آثَامِنَا. تَأْدِيبُ سَلاَمِنَا عَلَيْهِ وَبِحُبُرِهِ شُفِينَا
Is. 53:3-5 (I am still amazed by this verse)

My First Video

Here is my first attempt at making a video. It is a pretty simple picture video of Alaska. Only about half of the pictures are mine, the rest I downloaded from the net. The song is by Chris Rice.
Anyway, let me know what you think.