{"id":78,"date":"2005-05-08T02:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-08T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=78"},"modified":"2009-04-24T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T20:06:16","slug":"bruce-almighty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/bruce-almighty\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Almighty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomorrow I’ll be showing clips from Bruce Almighty<\/A> in Sunday school.
\nFor some reason my sister’s death has really hit me while talking to my mom late tonight and then watching clips from Bruce Almighty.
\nI don’t believe we can ever understand why God does what He does. But He does it no matter what. I want to be bitter and upset, but then I see how horrible people can become even when they have all they want.
\nI think Bruce Nolan realizes that throughout Bruce Almighty. He realizes that while it might be easy to give everything to everyone who asks, there’s a greater plan involved.
\nWhile he may want everything to go his way, God’s way is actually greater.
\nI have to believe that with my sister’s death. I want her back in my life so badly, yet I know I’ll never be able to see her again until I join her in Heaven.
\nIt makes me want to sing along with the Los Lonely Boys<\/A> singing “How far is Heaven?” even more.
\nBut even more, several other songs come to mind that helped me through the week of my sister’s funeral.<\/p>\n

Home Free – Wayne Watson<\/A><\/B>
\nI’m trying hard not to think you unkind
\nBut Heavenly Father If you know my heart
\nSurely you can read my mind
\nGood people underneath the sea of grief
\nSome get up and walk away
\nSome will find ultimate relief<\/p>\n

Home Free, eventually
\nAt the ultimate healing we will be
\nHome Free Home Free, oh I’ve got a feeling
\nAt the ultimate healing
\nWe will be Home Free<\/p>\n

Out in the corridors we pray for life
\nA mother for her baby, A husband for his wife
\nSometimes the good die young
\nIt’s sad but true
\nAnd while we pray for one more heartbeat
\nThe real comfort is with you<\/p>\n

You know pain has little mercy
\nAnd suffering’s no respecter of age, of race or position
\nI know every prayer gets answered
\nBut the hardest one to pray is slow to come
\nOh Lord, not mine, but Your will be done\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

and also:<\/p>\n

Beautiful Road – Wayne Watson<\/B>
\nIf I had my way, I must admit
\nIf I called every play of the game
\nI’d pray for good times, blue ky and sunshine
\nAnd I’d avoid with a passion any pain
\nBut with every blow from an engry wind<\/p>\n

And with every dark shadow that falls
\nThere’s a better view up around the bend
\nWhere this puzzle makes some sense after all<\/p>\n

Mistakes and misfortunes will come and go
\nFor you to try and still fail is no disgrace
\nSometimes a rough and rocky road
\nIs gonna take you to a beautiful place<\/p>\n

Is there anyone out there looking back through you rfaith
\nThat can deny that your Father knows what’s best
\nOh but at the time and place for the life of you
\nYou saw no reason, no good for the test
\nBut now remembering as you watched His hand
\nPut the color to your black and white dreams
\nMaybe one more time past what you can see
\nOh the trouble of the moment ain’t as bad as it seems<\/p>\n

Sometimes the unspoiled beauty of the wisdom of God
\nIs lying there in the wilderness
\nUp there beyond the easy reach
\nWhere the journey takes a little more,
\njust a little more faith I guess\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bruce Nolan says “Things happen for a reason” is cliche.
\nI sure hope its not cliche.
\nPaul writes, “That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.” (Romans 8:29 MSG) or the NIV translates it as, “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
\nIf things happened by chance, it would make Amy’s life and death meaningless.
\nI hope, believe and know better.<\/p>\n

God, grant me the serenity
\nto accept the things I cannot change;
\nthe courage to change the things I can;
\nand the wisdom to know the difference.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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