Okay so obviously this is not a recent movie, but I recently got the opportunity to watch it again with a few of my friends while we were vacationing in Arizona, and omigosh, Titanic is a good movie.
And now that I'm not a sophomore in high school anymore, I can see it for WAY more than the love story. I actually was so much more into the last half than the first half this time - it's just so tightly written and directed with so many great moments of love and compassion and selfishness, it is seriously brilliant.
But anyways, this is the main thing God pointed out to me about myself while I was watching it: I was thinking about how nobody in first class really got the real tragedy of what was going on until they were safe in their lifeboats watching the people that didn't get saved drop off the side, (probably to their death). And I was thinking, Wow, it's this sort of tragedy happening that really gets you to wake up to what's important in the world. And I was sort of (naively) praying, Man God I almost wish there was something this bad happening today so I could wake up out of my selfish pit and realize there are real things going on.
And God was like, "Um, there are a LOT of real things going on, Tracy, you're just in first class not thinking about it or aware."
"Oh right.........."
So anyways, since then I've sort of been like, Okay God please help me to realize the reality of what is really going on in the world and give me a passion for something besides movies for the sake of movies or stories for the sake of stories. I want to be compelled toward something real and compel others toward something real, and if I can be a part of movies to do that, awesome. Otherwise, whatever it is He wants me to do while I'm living here in this movie town, I want to be compelled to take action and do it. (And let me just say it's only been a day, and God's already been giving me stuff to respond to. - I'm pretty sure there are certain things God does NOT wait to give us if we pray for them, and asking for opportunities to be compelled to help others is one of them.)
