Avatar Inspired Musings

Disclaimer: You may not want to read this until after you have seen the movie.

While watching Avatar tonight, I was amazed by the parallel between the Ikran and its rider and Jake and Neytiri. The connection was obvious and beautifully real to me. The idea that when you find what is truly yours, whether a relationship or your assignment in this life, our first reaction tends to be rebellion. We lash out and thrash at it, attempting to harm or even kill it. I believe that it is because we know that the necessary connection requires true submission.

Basically, from the Ikran's perspective their will is completely relinquished to its rider. It means that what the rider thinks the Ikran does, without question. To become one with your destiny you must die to self.

Who wouldn't fight that. No one says "I want to be out of control," or "in the control of others." We say "I need to be in control," but true destiny, whatever it may be for you, requires surrender. In life, love, and faith.

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

OK, so yesterday was family day at the dollar movie. Awesome times... anyhoo, for movie #1 we went to see Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs. CRAZY STUFF! It was just so... weird. Not bad, just weird. I don't know, I definitely think that you should see if you haven't though, if for no other reason than to experience the giant pancakes and daggers of peanut brittle.
You will laugh, A LOT! The characters are hopeless dorks who, let's face it, make the most interesting people on and off screen. The lead especially is eccentric, awkward, endearing, and a genius without actually being smart. Even if you don't like the movie, it makes a great conversation piece, obviously.
Lol,
Ina

The Jonathan and David Phenomenon

I pride myself on being myself regardless of whether or not my quirky nature is excepted. I truly believe that saying "Be yourself, everyone else is already taken." With that said, I must admit that I never truly feel more like myself then I do when I am with my best friend. She and I have known each other for 20 years.
We have gone almost a year without talking for several of those 20, not out of spite or bitterness, our lives simply take us down separate paths sometimes; but no matter where we are in our lives or how we have changed when we get together we are in sync. Spoken or unspoken, she hears me. We understand each other, and speak each other's spastic and whimsical language. We're amazed by it, and immeasurably grateful for it. In a way, people like this sort of anchor your life. They poke and prod until those secrets, that have been holding you hostage, come out. They knew you when you were creating the first draft of your dreams, they know every adorable and ugly part of who you really are. I don't know about you, but for me this becomes more and more valuable with every year.
I just wanted to shine a little light on an everyday miracle that I think we take for granted. Friendship is a beautiful opportunity to give and experience love in its purest form. I encourage you to make sure that the people who enrich your life know just how much they add to your life, by being in it.
Quote for the day:
"the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul." 1Samuel 18:1

Silly

Nothing deep to write about today. Just finished catching up on my shows and am really too delirious to think too hard about anything. I think that's why I love twitter so much. Random is welcome.

What If

What if I embraced my greatest fear? That I really don't mind being single. I would love to be in a relationship, but if I'm not, I can still be very fulfilled. What if I embraced a life of singleness? I could even go a step further and be brave enough to acknowledge that I feel alone, because I, alone, have isolated myself. That even feels good to type.

I would like to try an experiment; I would like to pretend that it doesn't matter. That single or not my life will be great if I make it great. Not building a wall, but demolishing one. Opening up a space in my life that I had on reserve for a life that does not exist. I could, in theory, fill that space with something, anything, that I want to. Hmm, that's a nice thought. It's like having a whole new room to renovate. Let's see, do I want a dance room or a library...

Dreaming Wide Awake

I close my eyes, whisper a prayer, open my heart and...

The old end to this sentence used to be wait, but now I'm at a crossroads when it feels like the answer is move or act.
I want to be careful, because I definitely don't want this blog to be whinny and self-important, but for anyone else who is at that same spot, trying to figure out if this is Isaiah 40:31 or Deuteronomy 31:6, know that you are not alone, my prayer is your prayer. Lift me and I will lift you.
Ina

Quote for the day:
"In twenty of the world's most primitive languages, the word for belief is the same as the word for do."

New Beginings

So I just finished watching Julie and Julia, finally, and even though I have had this blog account for awhile, I decided that tonight was the night to start using it. Not very original of me I know, but I just couldn't help longing for the sort of direction and purpose that each of these women found by just starting something new. Without knowing where it was going to go or planning each step to the letter. They just... started. So I am following their lead, here it goes...

Hi I'm Ina, this is Jesus Girl, its not a soap box or anything, just an opportunity to expand the definition of the term. I hope that male or female, young or old that you get something out of it. That every time you read an entry you feel a bit more inspired or renewed somehow. The entries will be as varied as my tastes, so if you are narrow minded I can almost guarantee that you are not going to like it. But I hope you do.

Quote for the day:
"Do what you can with what you have, where you are."
Theodore Roosevelt