I saw 'the pianist' last night with tim. now to start with i've got a bit of a cold happening, so i'm not the most switched on i've ever been, but what a powerful, and horrible, movie. they didn't really seem to scrimp on any detail, and i just cannot fathom how people can treat other human beings like that. i know we still see it all the time today - iraq, zimbabwe, afghanistan, but even here as people take life for granted. but such a huge huge waste and extermination of human life, for such un-understandable and unjustifiable reasons. and it was a true story. and these things did happen. and that is mind blowing. tim and i were then talking about australia, and how it'd have to be a direct war on australia for anything too huge to happen. no one really cares about this 'little' country on the world scene - as long as we don't become too friendly with America maybe. that might be a totally simplified look at things, and maybe it's just more of a hoping nothing could happen here, but that doesn't stop it from happening elsewhere - bombs, shootings, mass executions, armies, wars... it's all so depressing. but thankfully we have a gracious and compassionate God who knows everything that is going on, and who will return with peace and comfort and joy. and thats not just some airy fairy thing. he is here, he is now. and that is comforting. nothing that can ever happen is bigger than him "what can mortal man do to me?"
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