Melissa’s Cozy Teacup

What are you willing to give up? What are you willing to do? How do you set yourself a part in this world as a Christian? In these perilous times where anything goes, where t.v. shows and movies are constantly pushing the envelop of decency, glamorizing what we as Christians know to be wrong, and there are even some churches that no longer say there is a right and a wrong, one runs the risk of being label a kook or a radical for speaking out against things which have generally been embraced by society. So here goes my foray into kookville.

The Golden Compass. Short story, don’t see it, it glamorizes and tries to mainstream demons.

Long story, it’s bad, bad, bad. Even though, just by viewing the trailers, one could think this is a story about good and evil, sort of like Narnia (it has that sort of feel to it) there is a difference. ALL the characters, good and bad have demons also known as animal familiars. This is pure witchcraft, my friends. I know, as an adult, I don’t need or want that sort of thing swimming around inside my head. Can you imagine what it’s going to do to your kids? Since the main character of this movie is a child, it looks like all this has been created to attack children, to get them and their parents, comfortable with the idea of demons, to make it look ‘cool’ and acceptable and ‘ok’. If there is one gift you can give yourself and those you love, it’s to not see this movie. Let’s send a big message to Hollywood and hit them where it hurts, their pocket book. The message? We’re not going to continue to allow them to attack children and twist them or corrupt them any more.

I love the art work of, Linda Nelson Stocks. Usually I’m not a big fan of folk art, but I discovered her quite by accident one day while shopping. There on the shelf was a desk calendar. I thumbed through it and was delighted by what I saw. Bright, happy pictures of people and places that make you wish you where there.