Eden’s Garden

Tonight I went and saw Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix.(stop reading here if you havn’t seen it and don’t want to know some stuff from it)  It was powerful, I mean truly inspiring.  I don’t know that I’ve ever felt that much emotion during a movie, I was deeply moved. 

I don’t want to ruin the movie, but the villian in the movie, his goal is to creep in unnoticed, for the world to deny that he is back.  There Is a group of people fighting against this, they are raising the awarness that he is here and we have to get ready to fight him.  The other goal of the vilian is to drive people into isolation, particularly Harry Potter.  To make him feel alone, like there is no one that can understand him or help him.  There is a battle in Harry’s life between what is good and what is evil, and he realizes that there is darkness in his heart.  A great quote fromn the movie is Harry’s godfather(godfathers are the greatest )  says to him..”we all have darkness and light in us, thats not who we are its what we decide to act on…that is who we are.” 

At the end the villain is in Harry’s mind trying to fight him from the inside out…and the villain is showing harry all these things he has in common with him..trying to get him to turn evil…He’s trying to make harry think that there is no difference between himself and Harry….and then Harry realizes the difference, and he says to the villain, “I know something you’ll never know, I know friendship and love, You will never know those and I pity you.”  This is the most powerful point in the movie (sorry for ruining it for anyone who hasn’t seen it) Harry in the most crucial moment chooses good…He is being torn between the two and in the confusion one thing pulls him out one thing brings him back to good.  and that is the love found in friendship.

Anyways there is so much application I find from this movie.  Love and friendship are the greatest things, and we should hold tightly to them becuase it is those things that will get us through.  And more then that, life is about love and friendship.  We would do anything for love, we would sacrifice everything for friendship.  We would move accross the country, we would work past the wounds of earlier years, we would kill we would be killed sacrifice ourselves.  There is no question about what is the most powerful force in the world it is Love….
It makes me wonder why as christians we’ve tried to bring people back to good, by promising them a better future, when in all truth the only thing that would bring them back would be the friendships they’ve formed the love they have felt.   “God IS love.” 
Love should be behind everything I do, because God should be behind everything I do, Love should be found in all of creation, because God is found in all of creation.  Love is in every breathe because God is in everybreathe, and Love was and is and will be because God was and is and will be.  The world moves for love, because it was love that put it in motion. 

 God identifies himself so closely as love, surely there would be nothing wrong with is if we spent the rest of our lives learning about love, and practicing it to all we met.  May the kingdom of love come, may it come today in our words and our actions in our homes and all throughout the world.