Mother Jackie, Big Bear Valley in Intensive Care
Dear Lord,
May your presence be known to Jackie. May her family know she’s still close and in your care. Offer her your peace. We give thanks that you are also close to Shadow, Sandy and Luna. Surround the whole family in the Light of our Prayers. If it be your will, we pray they will be united again. We trust in your plan.
In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We Trust in You. AMEN
The Chosen has gathered a worldwide following as a production funded by fans from the first season. Their support provided the ways and means to translate into dozens of languages so the free offering can spread its message to as many people as possible. What is different about this production of Jesus’ story is that it shares the experience from the perspective of the disciples who followed him – and who didn’t understand what would happen until the end.
It brought the stories of the Bible to life for me and drew me back to the scriptures to see what I didn’t understand before. Every season and episode is worth watching many times. Every element from the actors, writing and production are beautiful and in my assessment divinely inspired. The show has become the center of many Bible study groups and is presented in a way that families can watch it together.
Last night they introduced the first scenes from Season 6 that will premiere in November. The final Season 7 will share the Resurrection as a single movie. Time given to each story offers an inside look at how the disciples were changed from who they were in the beginning. If you haven’t seen it yet, the first 5 seasons of 8 episodes each are available and free to watch on YouTube. If you download the free Chosen App, you can likely watch in your own language.
I’ve included the links to the first teaser of Season 6, and “The Brosen” reaction video from film crew members who are seeing their work in its finished form for the first time.
‘Torqued Motion’ by Marmont Hill Art Collective
From the moment we’re born we’re twisted and turned under extreme pressure to become someone in the world. One of my mother’s pet sayings was, “Do you think you’ll ever amount to anything?” I never took offense to it at the time it was delivered with loving affection.
I did take offense later when I was old enough to consider “what it means”. The meaning change again when I understood her story. She lost her mother to TB when she was 3. She was mostly raised by relatives. In those days one third of all children were expected to raised by someone other than their parents. They were encouraged to be perfectly behaved in the interest of their future survival. I expect she was only repeating what was said to her. I pray that they said it with affection. Ancestors in my maternal line were known as people of Faith for generations.
We are Born Again through Christ who lived to die for us. The Way to die to the world is an effort to be nobody in the world. God’s Way requires nothing of us in the world. We were given Time to express what we Love about being alive. God’s Ways are always easy. We don’t have to do anything but Give Thanks to the Highest One for the Dream the the Holy Spirit will carry to its end. An incorruptible Seed can never fail.
Romans 14:11 KJV
11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
