I am soooooo glad to be back in LA and able to see movies that aren't playing everywhere.
Though B) Why isn't this movie playing everywhere?
It was soooooo good. It's about a late 20's or so woman who works in a teen group home, and let me just tell you, I worked in a group home once (it's the reason I originally moved to CA when I was 21), and I could relate so much of my experience to what was going on in the movie.
I cried pretty much the whole time, and then the part where all the kids make a bunch of cards for the one girl that's not connecting with anyone, OH MY GRACIOUS. I was bawling. Mostly because I've made a lot of cards for people.. at the group home where I worked, at all sorts of places where I've worked, for friends in general. I write letters, encouragement notes, tell stories. It is my favorite way of lifting people up, but sometimes I feel like this "life work" of mine has gotten me nowhere.
I care about people, but I have no boyfriend. I care about working hard and spending time on projects, but I have no real job. I write, write, write, write write, create, create, create, create, create, yet what is happening with any of it? Nothing really.
But it's funny because the first card the girl in the movie opens says at the bottom, "Your friend, Tracy," and that's when I really lost it.
I felt like God was saying, "I know, Tracy. I know about each and every card and letter and story you've written for people, and maybe it doesn't seem like it, but it has made a difference."
It made a difference for the girl in the movie, and this movie made a difference in my life, and you know what? World-famous success or no success at all, everything you do from your heart for someone else counts because it's love, and that is the reason we're here.
Matthew 22:37-39 - "Jesus replied, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.'"
