Lost

If you are a Lost fan than you know that the series finally was on Sunday. That is right there will be no more Lost episodes. I have really enjoyed the show as you get to watch these people face challenges and see how it defines the person that later become. There are so many things that you could take away from Lost and apply them to Christianity. But today I want to share a quote from the last episode that has been on my mind. In the show there is this guy named Hurley who is hilarious and has the biggest heart out of all of the characters. He is sitting in the car with Sayid who was a torturer in the Iraqi Republican Guard. Hurley looks at Sayid and tells him "Man I think you are a good guy, people have been telling you for a long time that you are not and you believe them. No one can tell you who you are, only you can do that." Wow. That is so true for so many people in the world today. We let other people tell us who we are suppose to be or what is going to become of us, when we are the ones who get to decide that. We care so much about what people think about us that we are willing to become what they think we are just to fit their image. Why not break free of that bondage. Throw it all away and stand up for yourself. Tell yourself that you can be anything you want to be. People do not define who we are but for some reason we let them. And this goes both ways. Not only do we let people define who we are but we also try and define who they are. You see this in the class room all the time. Teachers will tell their students that they will never pass their class so the student stops trying and does not pass the class. I wish I could say that I did not care about how people viewed me or what they thought about me but then I would be lying. How great would it be if we could just rest in the fact that we are daughters and sons of the King of Kings and that he thinks that we are beautiful. That his opinion is the only one that matters. So let's try and follow Hurley's advice and not believe what others think about us (unless it is good).
Hope you are having a great week.
Days until the end of school 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!