Resonance

DMA class this past Tuesday really hit me. Yes, I'll say that post-modern buzz word: it resonated with me. All of this about fairytales and humility and restraint and remembering what we have forgotten struck a chord in my soul and I cannot look at some things the way I did before. I'm not saying this for drama's sake, but because it's true.
The idea that "humility and restraint" are a way of thanking God for the gifts he's given us and not just the conditions under which we receive them... that revolutionizes the way I see temptation. When we as humans exercise sexual freedom or have reckless lifestyles, we're not just breaching a list of do's and don'ts. We're throwing away true blessings of God and are making them commonplace. Restraint isn't holding ourselves back from something better because God says so, it's valuing what we're given as it truly is and taking the focus off of ourselves.
And what we have from God isn't even what we were given. As Chesterton wrote and Prof. Leeper elaborated on, All that we have that is beautiful and good is salvage from a shipwreck. At least that's the summary I have scrawled in my notes from class. There was so much in this lesson.

"The fairytale understands the value of water because it calls it wine and turns it into a river."

"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly."

"...that glimpse into where we belong, or the idea of it."

I couldn't write fast enough to catch it all.
All at once I'm blessed and confused and angry at the world and the church and myself, and I'm just afraid I can't hold onto this all.

Cue Leeper:

In all seriousness though, I never want to lose these ideas. I realize how much I need to think them through, analyze them, and see how they translate into my life and my relationship with God. How will this look in my art? (That I do as a hobby, as I'm not a dma major.) My career? Lord knows what I'll be doing after college.

So yeah, not really a response to the films, but I had to kind of throw this all out there because I couldn't hold it in.