Ester Hobbs' husband, Franklin, passes away unexpectedly of a heart attack. His not so wise business investments leave this Chicago socialite with just about only the clothes on her back and a few pieces of paste jewelry. The one thing that
is excluded from the estate - and thereby from liquidation - is a house in rural Georgia. Her lawyer thinks it is maybe a good idea to sell it and use the money to start over somehow but there's one catch: The house is occupied by foster family who is already barely getting by.
is excluded from the estate - and thereby from liquidation - is a house in rural Georgia. Her lawyer thinks it is maybe a good idea to sell it and use the money to start over somehow but there's one catch: The house is occupied by foster family who is already barely getting by.
Tony and Ramona wants to serve the Lord by caring for five broken children. Crystal's mom named her after her beloved drug. Jasmin doesn't speak - not because she can't, but because she won't. Max's mom cares more for her hair extensions than her boy. Justin risked his life to save his father from a fire just so that he could die of cancer a year later and Teri bears the physical scars of her abuse.
Ester never had children and with her husband gone the grieving widow is alone in the world, looking for a way to go on. A foster family is fragile as it is and the last thing they need is for her way forward to be them loosing the only safe place their broken hearts have found shelter in.
My heart broke as I watched them struggling to find their way. Each one broken and in their struggle hurting each other even more until each one chooses to start responding differently. Perhaps if they were able to escape from the circumstance they would have missed out on the whole learning experience.
I've had times in my own life when I felt God locking me into an experience with nowhere to run or hide. I would imagine it as two arc enemies in a room. I'd go through all the motions of rage (fighting against being where I am), tears of frustration and helplessness, silent treatment one side in my corner refusing to engage in any way, but finally realizing that it is all futile - I might as well surrender. And then emerging from the room as best friends and feeling as if being locked up was the best thing that ever happened to you. Have you ever felt anything like that?
God says that He is the Potter and we're the clay. For the clay to dry it has to be baked at extremely high temperatures and the process can be very painful, but the soft clay is not usable as a bowl, a cup, a pot, etc. If God had to leave us in our weakness and brokenness we'd be so much less of what we could be, and do so much less of what we could do - for ourselves and for God's purposes. It is all about surrendering to Him.
In the movie it is the surrendering to what is and accepting and embracing the journey that brings the healing that they all need so desperately. When people are hurt they can't help but hurt others as they desperately try to cover their wounds and protecting themselves from new wounds being inflicted. It is kind of like someone who is drowning and even though someone tries to save them they are so freaked out and struggling in the panic that they don't even care who they drown in the process of trying to keep their own head above water. It is the one who realize that they have to surrender to the Rescuer, calm themselves down and follow His instructions who end up getting to the shore - alive.
Freaking out is easy because it is instinctive but it can kill you - spiritually, emotionally and even physically. Courage is the one who takes the reigns on his instinct and direct it with will power, purpose and faith; not the one who don't feel the panic, the fear or the pain, but the one who is not controlled by it.
Through the struggle each one wins a personal victory as well as they start to help each other heal too, and in the process they each find greater purpose, new hope and a future. Facing our fear, our pain, our past takes tremendous courage, but there is no healing in sweeping it under the rug. You can sweep it in on one side and it will find it's way out on another. Facing it might make it worse before it makes it better, but the difference between facing it and not lies in coming out on the other side - victorious - free to leave it behind and move on - stronger, wiser, whole.
A simple prayer like Lord, what now? Please help me find my way. can change everything. And out of the ashes of yesterdays gone by rises up a dream for beautiful tomorrows.
30 Nov '11 - Offical website: http://www.lostandfoundfamilythemovie.com/about.php
I've had times in my own life when I felt God locking me into an experience with nowhere to run or hide. I would imagine it as two arc enemies in a room. I'd go through all the motions of rage (fighting against being where I am), tears of frustration and helplessness, silent treatment one side in my corner refusing to engage in any way, but finally realizing that it is all futile - I might as well surrender. And then emerging from the room as best friends and feeling as if being locked up was the best thing that ever happened to you. Have you ever felt anything like that?
God says that He is the Potter and we're the clay. For the clay to dry it has to be baked at extremely high temperatures and the process can be very painful, but the soft clay is not usable as a bowl, a cup, a pot, etc. If God had to leave us in our weakness and brokenness we'd be so much less of what we could be, and do so much less of what we could do - for ourselves and for God's purposes. It is all about surrendering to Him.
In the movie it is the surrendering to what is and accepting and embracing the journey that brings the healing that they all need so desperately. When people are hurt they can't help but hurt others as they desperately try to cover their wounds and protecting themselves from new wounds being inflicted. It is kind of like someone who is drowning and even though someone tries to save them they are so freaked out and struggling in the panic that they don't even care who they drown in the process of trying to keep their own head above water. It is the one who realize that they have to surrender to the Rescuer, calm themselves down and follow His instructions who end up getting to the shore - alive.
Freaking out is easy because it is instinctive but it can kill you - spiritually, emotionally and even physically. Courage is the one who takes the reigns on his instinct and direct it with will power, purpose and faith; not the one who don't feel the panic, the fear or the pain, but the one who is not controlled by it.
Through the struggle each one wins a personal victory as well as they start to help each other heal too, and in the process they each find greater purpose, new hope and a future. Facing our fear, our pain, our past takes tremendous courage, but there is no healing in sweeping it under the rug. You can sweep it in on one side and it will find it's way out on another. Facing it might make it worse before it makes it better, but the difference between facing it and not lies in coming out on the other side - victorious - free to leave it behind and move on - stronger, wiser, whole.
A simple prayer like Lord, what now? Please help me find my way. can change everything. And out of the ashes of yesterdays gone by rises up a dream for beautiful tomorrows.
30 Nov '11 - Offical website: http://www.lostandfoundfamilythemovie.com/about.php
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