If It's Wednesday....

Then it must be Summer Kid Show at the Reel! Kaylee was sick so it was just me and K&K. Today's movie was "Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium". It was a kind of cute show - and the cliche "it-had-a-good-message" works here. Everyone has magic inside of them and needs to listen to your heart and let the magic out into your life - enriching it and everyone around you. A quote from Mr Magorium "the only thing you can do is face the coming day with 'determination, joy and bravery'." One of my favorite parts of the movie - taken from IMBd - When Mahoney takes Magorium to a clock store so they can listen to all the clocks strike 12, she breathlessly whispers they only have 37 seconds - all they have to do is wait. Magorium corrects her, saying that it's 37 seconds to breathe, reflect, enjoy, regenerate, dream."Thirty-seven seconds well used is a lifetime," he says. I love that - what a way to live your life!

More from IBMd - In the end, this is largely a tale about the wonder of life, the inevitability of death and the struggle to bring those two conflicting ideas together. That's oddly heavy stuff for a G-rated flick about a magical toy store, but it's handled quite deftly and in ways that even its youngest viewers will understand. Stories, even the ones we love the most, must eventually come to an end, we're told. "I'm only asking that you turn the page," Magorium tells a weeping Mahoney. "Continue reading. And let the next story begin."

. there's nothing wrong with following our hearts as long as we lend our brains and our souls to the proposition, too. God created in each one of us talent, passion and drive to do ... something. Throughout most of this story, Mahoney closes her ears to that calling. And the music doesn't soar until she opens them. She's not escaping responsibility or relationships. She's finally embracing them."I believe God made me for a purpose, but he also made me fast," Eric Liddell says in Chariots of Fire. "And when I run I feel His pleasure."We are God's creatures, and each of us carry a sparkle something greater than ourselves trying to get out. And believing in yourself enough (being courageous enough) to make that happen, well, that's a great thing indeed.