The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade

1967 Movie Club Selection

Rating: 16/20

Plot: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.

First things first--I don't remember the character's name, but there's a guy in this thing who has the best hair ever.

There are a great deal of words in this thing. Some, especially a lot of the ones that were sung, were incomprehensible. And a lot of them flew right over my little head. I was in bad need of subtitles to help me out. Even with subtitles, I doubt I'm intelligent enough to attempt swimming in the various layers of Marat/Sade. Freewill vs. predetermination, the power of the individual vs. the community, equality, freedom, justice, censorship, nihilism. Heavy stuff, and this is a challenging and intense experience. Draining even. The style instantly draws you in, almost makes you feel trapped in there with the inmates of the asylum. The single setting is sparse, but I like how some of the features of the bath house are utilized. The camera's definitely not afraid to get right in there, allow you to get intimate with the crevices of the actors' faces. At times, this is almost a movie you can smell. There are a couple of scenes that I just loved. First a "Marat Nightmare" scene with steamy effects, demonic silhouettes, and disorienting music. The second was a scene that started with a chant (in rounds) about "general copulation" and ended with some hot dry-humping orgy action. The ensemble cast is excellent. Patrick Magee is haunting as the Marquis, and I also liked Ian Richardson as the other titular character. My favorite characters, other than the hair guy, were the clown-make-upped chorus that would pop up and sing the weird little songs. Marat/Sade is heady stuff, but it's impossible to take your eyes off the screen as the camera maneuvers through all those crazy mo-fos. It's intoxicating and exhausting, and I wish I was enough of an intellectual to fully appreciate it.

So, fellow Movie Clubbers, what did all y'all think?

West Point With No Demerits

The 5 languages love - II

Quality time
When we talk about quality time, talk of giving someone your undivided attention. This is not to sit on TV together, but that with the TV off, looking at each other's eyes sharing a focus on the other. It means going for a walk together, do things together but with fully directed attention to each other. Sometimes in a restaurant you can see the difference between a dating and marriage.
The couple look at each face, the marriage looks around. It seems that marriage is going to the restaurant to eat and be together. When we give our exclusive attention we are giving our time, we are sharing and giving our lives. That is an expression of love. The quality time, what we intimacy is forged.
An intimacy that has nothing to do with how close we are physically
each other. Nor does it mean sex. We're talking about
focus our attention on each other. We speak of unanimity look
central this quality time. If a parent roll a ball playing with
her two years, his attention is on the ball but in the child. If
shoot the ball well is talking with a customer on the phone, but is
near your child physically, we can not speak of unanimity.
When we focus attention on the other we are not talking
look us in the eyes with nothing to say or do. We talked about
do things together, where we do is not important but what is central
we are together in the activity. We can play tennis with
our partner, climb a mountain. So no matter who wins, no matter
the altitude of the mountain we're climbing. What matters is what
happens at an emotional level, we are doing something together.


Some variants of this form of expression of love.

• The quality conversation

is an important way to spend time together
quality . Talk about sharing experiences, feelings,
thoughts, opinions, desires. This is not the same as what
talked in the first language of love "words of encouragement."
Then we talked about what we say. Now perhaps we are referring more to how
listen. If I love my partner, my son, I need to listen without sue
say what I think. I can say, I can ask, but
particularly with respect and sincere attention. Sadly the conversation
can return in a competition of ideas. This should not be so, we
build mutual respect that we give freedom to express ourselves.


ILLUSTRATION - Our book in question talks about a husband who
his wife heard their problems at work. The man of resolution, we
said, "you face your problems, talk to your superiors and
confront the issue." The next day, she returned to express his displeasure in
work. He asked, "did what I said. "She lowered her head and
silent response was no. In the end, he said exasperated,
"because I do not talk about it again, if you're not going to do anything to fix
not want to hear more complaints." She retreated from the relationship until
reach a point of separation. The problem is we need to see the
marriage is not about winning an argument, to convince the other. A
sometimes just listening can do so much. Perhaps even we will not be agree, but we are not going to separate. The separation is not difference of opinion but no love. Marriage is not a project that we take to succeed as a company. It is a relationship. Here are some suggestions for the quality of our conversations
.


1. Keep eye contact with your partner when you're talking about.
2. Do not do anything else while listening, if want that to be a quality conversation.
3. Beyond the words is to understand the heart of
speech.
4. Watch the body language.
5. Do not interrupt when another is speaking .


For a good discussion perhaps we must learn to speak
. Sometimes we do not express the heart. We have stunted the
ability to express our feelings and opinions. Some in
growth never took place to express their feelings.
To have an intimate relationship we
know our feelings, to express and to understand the other.
For expression, we also influence our
different personalities. Some people get a lot of experience in the day
but is happy without counting. These people might go on a trip to Pamplona
Sevilla, talking very little, and be happy with it. At the other extreme there
whom anything that comes by hearing or sight has a
expression by mouth.
Often these two ends meet and marry . Everything is
great, a great communicator with a good listener, and vice versa. But after 5 years of marriage the communicator up one morning and
says, "Well, actually do not know him. "Good listener, on the other side says,
good, would have a break or that once was heard.
In these cases we must learn new behaviors.
Our personality really influences us, but is simply
"comfortable" that controls us. Exchange would be good for at least three things
day to each other. And one must learn to listen and
another expression. This can forge a good start of expression
mutual .

• planning activities together

When one partner expresses dissatisfaction because not
do things together, usually a clear indication that his
need is quality time. The activity is irrelevant in a sense, the desire to dictate
who has the need. As an example we can take
of a couple when she was born in a house music lover
clásica y él a la pop. Cuando se casen puede ser una buena expresión de 
amor el ir a un concierto. Con ello, no solamente estará expresando su 
afecto sino que constituirá un banco de recuerdos de donde se podrá surtir 
enb los años venideros. “Te acuerdass cuando..?” 
 Hay actividades como plantar flores, lavar el coche, ir al monte, etc.

Bob Roberts

1992 political satire

Rating: 16/20

Plot: Ultra-conservative folk singer Bob Roberts wants to be a senator. A film crew follows him on his campaign while reporter Bugs Raplin tries to uncover a story of corruption.

As I've here stated ad nauseum, I love the mockumentary format. Generally, you don't 100% buy what's going on in your typical mockumentary, but you forgive them because they're hilarious. Bob Roberts isn't your typical mockumentary. It's not laugh-out-loudly hilarious, but it's got the realism. The cast, including all the extras, is gigantic, but they step on each other's lines like they would in real life and none of their actions seem extraneous or unnatural, helping me buy every inch of what was happening on the screen. That's actually pretty scary when you think about it. Bob Roberts is like a mockumentary that Robert Altman would have made. And although I didn't exactly laugh, the biting satire made me nod in appreciation more than any movie I can remember. It's an impressive achievement for first-time director Tim Robbins who also wrote the thing, starred as the titular right-winger/singer, and co-wrote the songs. It must have been exhausting. After all, tongue-lashing a nation for its hypocrisy, shortsidedness, and naivete is tiring work. This wouldn't click with everybody, and like a lot of great movies, it'll offend some people. Giancarlo Esposito as the reporter, Alan Rickman as an advisor, and Gore Vidal as the incumbent are all very good. I also dug all the Bob Dylan references, some album covers and the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" thing.

Planet 51

2009 pedestrian cartoon

Rating: 9/20 (Dylan: 6/20; Emma: 8/20; Abbey: 15/20)

Plot: It's an alien invasion! Only instead of the little green guys invading our world, it's Earthlings doing the invading. American Chuck Baker, a less-than-heroic astronaut hero, comes in peace, but he isn't exactly given a welcoming reception and has to find a way to retrieve his confiscated space ship and escape the titular planet.

OK, I'm officially tired of these CGI things that try to appeal to both children and adults and end up failing to appeal to either. The forced pop culture references in this (Thanks, Shrek) are cringe worthy, and the characters are as flat or personality-free as characters can get. The aliens, not helped by the fact that they all looked the same (apologies if that sounds racist), were indistinguishable, and the 1950's Americana influence for the setting was an idea that probably worked on paper a lot better than it ended up on the screen. It didn't take very long at all for me to completely lose interest in everything that was going on here. But my biggest problem, something that bothered me on multiple levels--a penis joke. "That's a funny place for an antenna." C'mon, Ilion Animation Studios. That's not necessary and unfunny on any planet.

Devil Doll

1964 evil ventriloquist movie

Rating: 12/20

Plot: Loosely based on the life of Edgar Bergen, this one's about The Great Vorelli, a stage hypnotist and ventriloquist with a dummy capable of leaving the lap and walking around before saying one-liners like "Who are you calling a dummy, dummy?" or "Morning wood? It's morning, afternoon, and night wood for Hugo!" Vorelli spots a chance to inherit a fortune and hypnotizes the lovely and wealthy Marianne Horn. Marianne's boyfriend Mark doesn't approve.

Any time Hugo is on screen, this reminded me of The Twilight Zone (in a good way) and was effectively spooky. Whether Hugo's in his cage, "performing," or walking around on his own, he has this ability, like all ventriloquist wooden men probably, to make you a bit uneasy. The problem is that The Twilight Zone is about twenty minutes long while this thing was movie-sized, stretching the plot mighty thin. Bryant Haliday--an actor with only six, mostly B-pictures on his resume (How did I miss The Projected Man during my infamous "man" streak?)--does everything he can with a pretty lousy script and is really pretty good. He's at least good enough to have a career longer than six movies. I liked the scenes with Vorelli on stage, mostly because they seemed nowhere near natural. It seems like a lot of the extras should have walked out during the weird hypnosis stuff--making people think they're being executed or getting women to dance. If not, the stuff with the dummy would have cleared the house. A walking ventriloquist dummy, although a novelty, wouldn't necessarily be entertaining, would it? And the interaction between Hugo and Vorelli was so intense, the latter barking these orders with an odd threatening edge in his voice. This movie really isn't very good, mostly because of a weak story and poor writing, and it's not bad enough to be funny. In fact, it's the type of movie you'd forget about completely if not for the image of Hugo walking around on his own with that goofy smile on his face. It's not the worst way to spend eighty minutes though. Here's Hugo:

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The 5 love languages \u200b\u200b- I

Palabras de afirmacion

said on one occasion Mark Twain "I can live for two months with

a compliment, a recognition." If we take this literally

would say that with six good compliments could maintain their status

emotional good for one year. Probably your partner

need more than that.

"Death and life are in the power of language ..." Pr 18.21

and not speaking a word of the executioner, but the power behind the words we speak about others.

"Heaviness in the heart of man causes depression, but a good word makes

happy. "Pr 12.25

The truth is that words of gratitude, gratitude, appreciation,

of mind can be a way to express love very valuable. What

environment could be created in our relations a word frequency

as "Look how beautiful these in those clothes" or "Thank you for

help with this or that. " Sometimes, either because the criticism is as easy

or because the truth is that we are happy to talk to despotism

say, " Going down the garbage or wait for the flies to the

lleven al contenedor?” Sin embargo cuando recibimos palabras de 

ánimo o gratitud estamos mucho más abiertos a responder a los deseos 

del otro que cuando recibimos una demanda cargada de criticismo.  

• A. Palabras de ánimo  

Animar significa “dar aliento.” Esa es una forma en que tus palabras 

pueden expresar tu amor. Todos nosotros tenemos áreas en las que nos 

feel insecure. We lack that spirit that keeps us from doing what

dream. It is doubtful that we are fully using our

capabilities and is certainly no recognition is impossible

realize our full potential. Your husband may have

@

undeveloped skills in a manner expected of your words to

possible to start because insecurity stop them. Often

man busy with their profession and vocation, ignores

capabilities that his wife may have undeveloped. Sometimes they are the

coming of the children that prevent development, but our

indifference or disinterest can also be a cause. Encourage her with words,

encourage you to take a course or meet with these or those are

ways we express our love for her.

Of course, giving encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from

the other's perspective. What matters is not what we consider

important, but what our spouse considers important. Not

our skills but of him or her. It is not encouraged to do

our thoughts but to encourage to meet their

prospects or hope.

• B. Kind words

For

over the content of our words is our tone that gives

meaning. The same phrase may invite intimacy or break the

communication. Words can lead almost irresistibly to anger

or may placate anger. You can even express offenses or misdemeanors

behavior in a way that invites rather than restoring the

discussion.

"The soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger "

Pr 15.1

As humans one of the kind words we need are the

of forgiveness, because I'm sure that from time to time about

unintentionally offend us. Errors and sins of the past once

confessed and forgiven will not go again. A judge's attitude

relentless, demanding, bitterness, can not build intimacy.

For this we need forgiveness. Forgiveness is not a feeling but a commitment

. "Although you could still need some time to

heal my wound that will not emerge as a conflict between us."

This is also a necessary kindness in our words.

• C. Words in humility

Love calls, no demands. If I demand I become the father and my wife in the

three year old girl who does not know what to do. We must always bear in mind that in marriage are two adults and peers, we are partners. To build intimacy is necessary to know the wishes and needs of the person you want to have that relationship. Sometimes we express our desires, ask for theirs,

but always giving or asking for guidance on how to express love, no ultimatums presented.

not even a domineering mother or a father demanding can build a privacy

with their children by maintaining a relentless attitude, how much less

with an adult? We need to give a choice to respond to our request

or not. Given a choice you can respond in love, but with the requirement

love suffocates.

You may not be a man or woman of many words and this

way of expressing love too much trouble. Test to see and record if necessary

encouraging words you read in books or see in movies.

When you talk to your wife talks to @ before other compliments to her or him.

Support your wife when you participate in a conversation with friends.

publicly acknowledges the support or part your wife on the achievements you've accomplished.

Words are a very important vehicle for expressing affection.

However, although important may not be the most important

for you. Whether the circumstances of our childhood, either by different

circumstances that could trigger a lack of love in the couple, which for me can be very important to you is not. Among the ways we express affection for another second language.

Ip Man

2008 Hong Kong Phooey

Rating: 17/20

Plot: The tale of Yip Man and why he lost his Y. Loosely (I imagine very loosely) based on a real-life tough guy in Foshan, a town packed with martial arts schools, who single-handedly-and-footedly beats up every single Japanese person and teaches China the art of Wing Chun. Bruce Lee, according to the poster, learned from him.

Not only is this an action-packed kung-fu film stuffed with lots and lots of images of guys getting kicked in the side of the face in slow motion (a modern kung-fu movie idea that will likely be beaten into the ground), it's a great movie. The cinematography is impressive, and the 1930s Foshan they've created is very realistic. The acting's good, especially the stoic Donnie Yen as the titular Yip, a guy whose got that gift of having such a presence even if he's not doing anything, reminiscent, I think, of the commanding screen presence that Bruce Lee had. And the scenes when he actually does do things on screen? Electric. The fight scenes are terrific--intensely exciting and often even emotional. There's a scene near the middle of the film where Yen fights Japanese soldiers for the first time, and from the moment he says, "I'm going to fight ten of you mo-fos" (that's my paraphrase) to the last strike, I was all goose-pimply. It's one of those fight scenes that, if you enjoy martial arts movies, you just have to rewind and watch again. You never really get the sense that Yen's character is in any danger at all though; in fact, I wondered if it was in his contract that he was not to be struck on screen or something. Still, regardless of whether or not there's any suspense about who is going to win any of the fight scenes, it's great fun watching Yen's quickness and fluid movement and there's nothing going on that makes it unrealistic or fantastical like some other modern kung-fu classics. With flying fists, swinging axes, dancing long poles, and busting bones, this has enough to please both old school kung-fu aficionados and fans of all those beautifully photographed, more mature martial arts dramas that have been made this century. I'm not sure about the historical accuracy. I'm also pretty sure that Ip Man is really a glossy action-oriented propaganda film. But who cares?

A confession: I may have watched this only to prevent it from being Kairow's movie-of-the-month selection for March because it would mess up the movie I want to pick in a few months. He can have credit for the recommendation though.

Damned--The Strange World of Jose Mojica Marins

"I'm Coffin Joe, and I'm about to eat your amygdala!"

2001 documentary

Rating: 14/20

Plot: Director and actor Marins discusses the ups and downs of his life and career.

This opens with some amazing footage of what I guess was a mass hypnosis. It looks like something straight out of a documentary about a Pentecostal church though. Coffin Joe tells a congregation that they are on a plane, a plane which begins to shake and eventually go down. The people scream and weep uncontrollably. Then, Joe tells them that they're all going to hell and grins madly and deviously. I'm not sure what exactly it adds to the Jose Mojica Marins story, but it sure was interesting to watch. Flash-forward to '99, and Coffin Joe's let himself go a bit. He looks like an ordinary out-of-shape Brazilian guy, balding and pot-bellied, and I'm not sure if I was surprised or disappointed that he isn't completely insane. I did learn some interesting tidbits about the guy:

1) He was born, of course, on Friday the 13th.

2) He loved and was inspired by comics, but surprisingly, to me at least, not Batman. He didn't care for Robin apparently.

3) As a boy, he actually lived in a movie theater.

4) His "studio" was an old chicken barn.

5) The first shocking film that he saw was an educational film about venereal disease.

6) He had a bodyguard named Satan.

7) As a kid, he knew a guy who sold potatoes on the street. He and the other children loved the guy. But as all potato men must eventually do, he passed away. Then, at his funeral, he came back to life again and freaked everybody out. This would have an impact on young Marins' life.

8) When working, Marins rarely slept or ate, sometimes working for 96 straight hours without stopping. He had to be hospitalized after taking 20 amphetamine pills.

9) While filming a movie called God's Sentence, he decided he was cursed due to all kinds of problems. Two actresses died, another actress lost a leg, the producer died. An assistant camera man asked Marins, "Who's next?" Marins answered, "You are." Of course, four hours later, the assistant camera man died.

10) Marins used snakes, spiders, and vivisepulture to test his actors and make sure they had the courage to appear in his movies.

11) The banning of Awakening of the Beast (this one will be on my blog soon enough) ruined him. He funded his next movies with the earnings from the previous movie. Since Awakening of the Beast wasn't allowed to be released, no next movie. Marins had to turn to an Ed Woodish pornography career.

12) Unlike Ed Wood's work, Marins' often involved bestiality. At least one had a talking dog, played by a non-talking dog that Marins said was the best actor he worked with.

For those of you who are bored with my write-ups of Coffin Joe movies, be glad to know that I've only got one to go. For the rest of you, here's a picture of Marins at work:

Hallucinations of a Deranged Mind

1978 film that just ain't right

Rating: 20/20 (Yes, there's a new Coffin Joe Rule. If you don't like it, take it up with him and more than likely have your face eaten off.)

Plot: A psychologist is troubled by nightmares in which the movie character Coffin Joe fondles his wife. His colleagues try to convince him that Coffin Joe is only a character and even call Jose Mojica Marins to speak with him. Then, on the back of a fish truck that unloads, his conscience explodes.

"Flesh will be blood, blood will become water to bathe my eternal legacy and glorify the pleasure of pain in the bodies of the damned. So shall it be from one galaxy to another from one existence to another. The little forever midget and the great eternal giant."

If God called the Audience of One guy to make the science fiction Joseph movie, I think Satan was probably responsible for this one. Or a buttload of hallucinogenics. This starts with a drumming, spinning hunchback, an image that in a normal movie would probably be the weirdest one. But this is a Jose Mojica Marins movie, not a normal movie, and the hunchback is just a precursor to about eighty minutes that can only be categorized as an unhinged barrage of nightmarish visuals, mostly censored scenes from his other movies that he's recycled. Bugs crawling on people, wind-up toy snakes, really really bad naked dancing, devil figurines, a bridge made out of people, a mustachioed spider puppet, waving feet, snakes and the women who laugh at them, Coffin Joe shooting fuckin' lasers out his fingers like Emperor Palpatine, shots of colorful test tubes and beakers with frothy foaming liquids, walls made of tarp and naked women, laughing and then exploding black guys in Speedos, those curling fingernails, that ominous unibrow, Erik Estrada, people in animal masks, a magically appearing top hat with pyrotechnics, naked guys tumbling down staircases, Satan poking the half-buried with a pitchfork, fire-breathing topless women, nude posteriors with goofy faces painted on them, finger-eating pasty guys, a lot of shots of half-buried people, what appears to be a cannibalism game show with an upside-down guy and a smiling man in a tuxedo beside him, demons with claw hammers, laughing skulls, random shots of frogs, white mice danging in front of bare breasts, severed hands, gelatinous head walls, tongue yankin', and that guy with two different-sized ears I've seen in Marins' other movies. And yes, that's all as badass as it sounds. Low-budget insanity art, toxic and mystifying. I've seen my share of weird movies, and I can tell you with confidence that there's not much out there that is this relentlessly weird. And I know what you're wondering, so I'll go ahead and answer the question for you--No, you can't handle this movie. Sadly, you would probably have trouble finding it anyway.

Audience of One

2007 documentary that my brother will be pissed I watched without him so I'd better hurry up and type a bunch of entries with the hope that he won't see this

Rating: 15/20

Plot: Because Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat wasn't quite amazing enough, God speaks to Richard, a Pentecostal preacher from California, and tells him he needs to make a science fiction movie based on Joseph's story. His congregation helps fund the project while Richard works hard to find other investors to help raise the fifty million dollars the first-time director wants to work with. Unfortunately, God doesn't seem to like what happens in pre-production and decides not to support the project any more. But Richard and his congregation, still convinced that they've been called to make the film, keep trying to do everything they can to make Gravity: The Shadow of Joseph a reality.

On the one hand, you almost want to commend Richard for his faith and for his creative spirit. He's a man, for better or for worse, who is bursting with ideas. But that one hand is so far away from the other hand, a much larger and more conspicuous and screaming hand. And on that hand, you want this guy to be punished for biting off far more than he can chew, ripping off a flock that really doesn't look like it can afford to be ripped off, and for being about as delusional as an individual can be. Don't get me wrong--I have nothing against delusions. But Richard's delusions are potentially harmful, the best example in this film probably being where one of his crew asks if it's safe for kids to be around some horses and getting the answer "Don't worry about that." There's a wonderful moment in the movie when, after spending a nice wad of movie to film in a neat spot in Italy, they encounter problem after problem. One of the problems is that their camera stops working. Oh, snap, right? Not if you're Richard who announced, "God called us here to shoot this movie, and we're going to shoot this movie--camera or no camera." It's not a leap of faith as much as it's a triple-jump of faith or a pole vault of faith. Later, after the church rents a San Francisco movie studio that they eventually can't afford the rent on after shooting what seemed to be zero hours of footage, Richard starts to get really paranoid, even setting up security so that nobody will bust in and steal their ideas. "It's either God or I'm crazy," he claims at one point, and you'll come away from this believing it's definitely one of those. By the end of the movie, Richard's completely lost his mind, promising his congregation that God has sent him a vision in which they'll be making forty-seven films a year, own eight TV networks, have their own airport, and (believe it or not) colonize another planet. Got news for you, Richard. It ain't God. Since this is a documentary about Pentecostals, you know you're going to be treated or creeped out by some scenes showcasing their religious practices, and there's a nifty scene where they're sanctifying the studio, a process that involves a great deal of shouting and these really strange horns. A lot of the cast is entertaining. The guy who plays the "horned captain" (I went to a Bible college, but I don't remember a "horned captain" in the Joseph story.), actor Daniel who plays Spirf, and a tubby and high-maintenance trippin' stunt man could all be in any movie that God tells me to make.

Don't tell Anonymous that I watched this.

Things I'm Thankful For

Happy Friday Everyone!  Just a short post today, cuz it's late and I am running behind schedule but a friend of mine recently said to me - "you're one of those cup-half-full people, aren't you?" which made me smile - because I am.  I was born on the sunny side of the street and I like it that way. ;-)  But that doesn't mean I don't count my blessings on a daily basis.

So here's a couple of things I'm thankful for today:

1. Beautiful, pristine white snow covering everything and bright blue skies overhead.

2. The internet that allows me to connect with people I would NEVER have met otherwise. One of the perks of getting a book published, that I had NO IDEA would come my way, is the chance to meet people from all over the world, who share my love of reading.  Case in point - just this week I've met people from:

Singapore (hi Fena!)
Australia ( hi Natalie, Brittany and Romy!)
Virginia (hi Meaghan!)
Indiana (hi Jasmine & Jacinda!)
Texas (hi Cynthia & Jessi!)
California (hi Camille!)
Michigan (hi Missy & Kim!)
Georgia (hi Stacey!)
The Philippines (hi Kai! - I met Kai a few months ago but we chatted again this week after a great blog post on her site)

Thank you for your interest in THE FAERIE RING! I am so happy to get to 'meet' you all!

3.  No school for my daughter.

4. It's Friday!

Hope you all have a GREAT weekend! If there are things you are thankful for - share it in the comments!!

~Kiki

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I'm back, and wanting to change my WIP

Hey everyone! To start with, thanks for all your support and advice. I've taken some of your suggestions (Seabiscuit is a great movie, I'm totally in love with Jeff Bridges) and it has been a great help. I'm still puffy and achy and drugged up, but I think I'm coherent enough to get back on track with the blog. I've been living on Animal Planet and McDonalds chocolate shakes, which isn't so bad once I switched to Percocet, because Lortab COMPLETELY screws me up. But anyway, thanks for sticking with me during the break. Hopefully its back to our regularly scheduled program.

So, as far as wanting to change my WIP. I've got about 17000 words down. Thats definitely the furthest I've gotten on a novel. I've started multiple others with stories and characters fairly similar to this. The genre is adult mainstream/contemporary, and honestly, I think thats been psyching me out a little bit. I've got a bunch of adult contemporary short stories and I also have some ideas that I think would be awesome as a screenplay, but I honestly am doubting whether I have the life and writing experience to write it as a full novel. I'm sure I do, I believe that anyone can write anything they want, but here's the thing--I can't help put myself in VERY intimidating company when I try adult mainstream, people like Marilynne Robinson, Wallace Stegner, Kaye Gibbons, even classic authors like Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte. I know thats ridiculous, but I can't help it.

So here's what I'm thinking. I would love to see my current WIP as a screenplay, so I'll try for that. And then I've got a new novel idea I'm actually totally psyched about. See, the reason I love adult mainstream is I love looking at real human emotion in real life problems, particularly with lonely middle-aged men. Don't know why, thats just the way it is. So I'm still going to have my cute middle-aged main character, but I'm going to add a little twist of fantasy. No vampires, werewolfs, dragons, anything like that, just a touch of fantasy that will 1) get me out of this psyched out mode thats making me feel like what I'm writing has to be GREAT ENGLISH LITERATURE, and 2) help me plot-wise by maybe giving me more story elements to work with. I believe the other stuff will come with experience.

What do you think? This isn't the first project I've stopped, and people keep saying 'Sarah, you need to finish something. You can't keep abandoning stuff.' And I agree, to be a writer you have to write. And I'm trying. I'm going to try and get this current idea a screenplay, which I think will be awesome, I've got a ton of short stories out there already, and each novel attempt gets better and better, gives me practice, and teaches me about myself as a writer. Right? Now, I'm not planning on giving up on this new idea. I really like it, it hits all my happy places. I think the false starts up to now have just been good practice.

What are your thoughts? Does this happen to you? Do my thoughts about why this is happening seem right to you?

Sarah Allen

Mulheres, Comida e Deus

A gula é sem dúvida, o mais comum dos 7 pecados capitais atualmente. Recém-lançado no Brasil, o livro Mulheres, Comida e Deus da autora norte-americana Geneen Roth (Editora Lua de Papel) aborda de maneira interessante, como nunca havia lido a respeito antes, a relação entre o que comemos e o que pensamos sobre nós mesmos, especialmente nós mulheres.

Para ela, a relação doentia com a comida, que hoje em dia atinge muitas pessoas, inclusive eu desde pequena, está ligada ao fato de em algum momento de nossa infância termos relacionado comida com amor e afeto.

Infelizmente, muitas mães só conseguem demonstrar carinho e amor pelos seus filhos no momento em que os amamentam o que criaria na criança esta associação. A vida agitada, a tripla jornada, o estresse ou até o desinteresse mesmo pelo filho, não importa o motivo, mas segundo a autora, se a criança não recebe amor, carinho e atenção em nenhuma outra parte de seu dia (ou pelo menos não naquela intensidade do ato de amamentar/alimentar) ela fatalmente terá tudo para ser um adulto viciado em comida.

E há de ser verdade pois quem é obcecado por comida, o é desde a infância. Eu não conheço ninguém que tenha se tornado viciado em comida aos 20 anos.

Eu achei isso tão verdadeiro que passei a enxergar a minha necessidade obsessiva por comida (especialmente doces) de uma outra maneira. Meu caso é clássico: a mãe que não consegue amamentar (ou acha que não consegue, que não tem leite suficiente, ou não gosta mesmo de amamentar) tenta dar uma mamadeira à filha, a pequena Adrianinha. Mas esta sabiamente o que faz? Rejeita! Existe coisa melhor do que o peito da mãe quando somos bebês? A mãe espertamente adoça o leite com um pouco de açúcar! Pronto! Danou-se! 35 anos depois e o que temos? A criatura aqui que vos escreve absolutamente viciada em açúcar!

E o mais interessante da história é que, no meu caso, a relação comida-amor realmente se estabeleceu pois minha mãe sempre muito ocupada, não tinha muito tempo para me dar a atenção que eu precisava. Apenas na hora das refeições!

Chegando cansada do trabalho? Que tal fazer um brigadeiro e comer com colher? Brigou com o namorado? Nada melhor que uma taça dupla de sorvete com chantilly! Sentindo-se só? Nada melhor que uma lata de leite condensado para acompanhá-la.

Para a autora, o ato de comer compulsivamente e a obsessão na contagem de calorias servem apenas para mascarar sentimentos não revelados. Ela recomenda algumas diretrizes para acabar com a obsessão: 1) coma sentado num ambiente calmo, o que não inclui o carro; 2) coma sem distrações – distrações incluem rádio, televisão, jornais, livros, músicas ou conversas intensas ou excitantes; 3) coma o que o seu corpo quer; 4) coma quando tiver fome;  5) coma até ficar satisfeito; 6) coma com alegria, gosto e prazer; 7) coma como faria na presença de outras pessoas.

O mais interessante, contudo,  é o que a autora propõe para se livrar do mal. Primeiramente, é preciso reconhecer o problema e conscientizar-se de sua origem, o que o trouxe à tona, em que momentos esta obsessão aparece e fazer maciço investimento em outros prazeres, para que estes possam “substituir” aquele. Em segundo lugar, ela sugere, como mostram as diretrizes,  que se coma tudo o que se quiser e der vontade pois a maioria das pessoas obsessivas por comida armazena o sentimento de que é preciso comer tudo até acabar, até não poder mais pois, sabe-se lá quando será possível fazer isso de novo (no dia seguinte, chegando do trabalho, nós sabemos!).  E só depois, será possível limpar a mente desta obsessão por comida!

Como é que é? Comer tudo que quiser até não poder mais?

Estaria a autora sugerindo o  suicídio para quem é viciado em comida? 

Bom, de qualquer forma, ela usa argumentos bem fortes (leia um trecho do livro abaixo)  para justificar tal recomendação e eu sugiro fortemente a leitura de Mulheres, Comida e Deus para quem se interessa pelo assunto.

Segue um trecho do livro:

Não se trata do peso. Na verdade, nada a ver sequer com comida



Alguns anos atrás recebi uma carta de alguém com uma faixa dos Vigilantes do Peso que dizia: "PERDI QUATRO QUILOS". Logo abaixo dessa frase, ela escreveu: "E ainda me sinto uma droga!"

Nós pensamos que nos sentimos péssimas por causa do peso. E como as juntas e joelhos doem, e não conseguimos caminhar três quarteirões sem perder o fôlego, é provável que estejamos péssimas fisicamente. Mas se passamos os últimos cinco, 20, 50 anos obcecadas com os mesmos cinco ou dez quilos, há mais alguma coisa errada. Algo que não tem nada a ver com peso.



Minha amiga Sally foi a um casamento na Finlândia alguns anos atrás e encontrou uma prima distante que estava furiosa comigo. A prima disse que havia lido meus livros, seguido minha abordagem e engordado 45 quilos. Ela me considerava uma charlatã, uma impostora, uma pessoa desprezível. Eu não a culpava. Se eu engordasse 45 quilos acreditando que estava seguindo conselhos de um especialista, também iria querer estrangulá-la. Humanamente, é claro, e com o mínimo possível de dor. Mesmo assim, estrangulá-la. Afinal, foram 45 quilos! Minha resposta para a prima de Sally foi dizer, da maneira mais gentil possível - e com a segurança de milhares de quilômetros de distância entre nós - que eu percebia que ela achava que estivesse me ouvindo, mas eu não defendo que se deva comer por razões emocionais. E engordar 45 quilos significa isso.



A maioria das pessoas fica tão feliz em ler e ouvir alguém cuja abordagem não é centrada na perda de peso, que toma isso como uma licença para comer sem qualquer restrição. "A-há!", elas dizem. Finalmente alguém entende que não tem nada a ver com peso. Nunca teve nada a ver com peso. Não tem nada a ver sequer com comida. "Ótimo", dizem, "Vamos comer. Muito. Não precisamos parar."



A verdade é que não tem nada a ver com peso. Nunca teve nada a ver com peso. Quando se descobrir uma pílula que permita às pessoas comerem o que quiserem sem engordar, os sentimentos e situações que tentaram evitar com comida ainda estarão lá e elas encontrarão outras maneiras inventivas de se anestesiar. No filme "O Feitiço do Tempo", quando percebe que não vai engordar mesmo que coma milhares de tortas, Bill Murray come como se não houvesse amanhã (pois, no filme, não havia). Mas o desafio se dissipou assim que ele percebeu que poderia ter tanta comida quanto quisesse sem as consequências habituais. Quando não existe o desafio, tudo o que sobra é um pedaço de torta. E quando você termina a torta, aquilo que não tinha nada a ver com a torta - mas o que o levou até ela, ainda está lá.

No último ano, recebi cartas e trabalhei com alunas que tinham: Hipotecado suas casas para pagar por cirurgias gástricas e depois recuperaram o peso que haviam perdido;

Emprestado dinheiro - uma boa quantia - de algum parente para fazer uma lipoaspiração para depois descobrir que ainda odiavam suas coxas;

Perdido 40 quilos e estavam tão decepcionadas com o fato de isso não ter resolvido seus problemas que recuperaram os quilos perdidos. E mais.



Não tem nada a ver com o peso. Se descobrissem uma droga que lhe permitisse comer o que você quisesse sem engordar, você encontraria outras maneiras mais criativas de continuar ignorando suas crenças fundamentais. Ou você sente vontade de acordar ou sente vontade de dormir. Ou quer viver ou quer morrer. Não tem nada a ver com peso. Mas também, não é que não tenha nada a ver com peso. Porque a realidade do peso e suas consequências físicas não podem ser negadas. Algumas das pessoas que participam dos meus retiros não conseguem sentar-se confortavelmente em uma cadeira. Elas não conseguem subir por um caminho com pequena inclinação sem sentir dor. Os médicos dizem que correm risco de morrer a menos que percam peso. Precisam fazer cirurgias nos joelhos, nos quadris, cirurgias gástricas. A pressão sobre o coração, rins e juntas é demais para que o corpo possa funcionar corretamente. Por isso tem a ver com o peso na medida em que o peso atrapalha as funções mais básicas, impedindo que façam coisas, que se mexam, que sintam.



A realidade da epidemia de obesidade - 75% dos americanos estão acima do peso - tem recebido ampla cobertura da imprensa. As intermináveis estatísticas, as novas drogas que estão sendo descobertas, a possibilidade de um gene da obesidade - tudo isso está ligado à questão do peso. Ninguém discorda do fato de que estar 40 quilos acima do peso é fisicamente desafiador.



Ainda assim, a questão é que, não importa se a pessoa pesa 70 ou 150 quilos, se ela come mesmo que não esteja com fome, está usando a comida como droga. Está lidando com tédio, doenças e perdas, dor, vazio, solidão, rejeição. A comida é apenas o intermediário, o meio para chegar a um fim. Para alterar as emoções, para deixá-la entorpecida, para criar um problema secundário quando o problema original fica muito desconfortável, para morrer lentamente em vez de enfrentar a vida atrapalhada, surpreendentemente curta. Acontece que o meio para chegar a esse fim é a comida, mas poderia ser o álcool, o trabalho, o sexo, ou crack e heroína. Surfar na internet ou falar ao telefone.

Mas por uma infinidade de motivos nós não entendemos completamente porque (genética, temperamento, meio-ambiente) aqueles que comem compulsivamente escolhem a comida. Não é por causa do gosto. Não é por causa da textura ou da cor. Queremos quantidade, volume. Precisamos de muito para ficarmos inconscientes. Para apagar o que está acontecendo. A inconsciência é que é importante, não a comida.

Às vezes as pessoas dizem: "Mas eu gosto do sabor da comida. Na verdade, eu adoro o sabor! Não estou tendo uma relação íntima, não estou sendo tocada regularmente, não estou sendo massageada. A comida é meu único prazer. Por que não pode ser simples assim? Como demais porque gosto do sabor".

Mas...



Quando você gosta de alguma coisa, presta atenção a ela. Quando gosta de algo - de verdade - dedica algum tempo a isso. Você sente vontade de estar presente o tempo todo.

A compulsão por comida não leva a esse sentimento. Você come e engole e sente um mal estar tão grande, que não consegue pensar em outra coisa além do fato de estar cheia. Isso não é amor; isso é sofrimento.O peso é um subproduto. O peso é o que acontece quando você usa a comida para nivelar sua vida. Mesmo com juntas doloridas, não tem nada a ver com a comida. Mesmo com artrite, diabetes, pressão alta. Tem a ver com a vontade de nivelar sua vida. Tem a ver com o fato de você ter desistido sem dizer isso. Tem a ver com sua crença de que não é possível viver de outra forma - e você está usando a comida para botar isso pra fora sem ter de admitir.

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Judaizers

Judeo-Christian Movement. A number of nations in the Galatian churches were subjected to practices of Jewish law. In terms of the early church, Judaizers were those who thought that enforcement as necessary or desirable for the Christian life. In the Church Judaizing tendencies have appeared at various times.

Year A - The Third Sunday in Lent (March 27, 2011)

There are a lot of thirsty people in today’s texts.  To get worshipers of all ages thinking about thirst slaking water, borrow a bubbling fountain to display prominently in the worship center.  As the service begins urge the worshipers to listen both to the fountain and for all the thirsty people in worship today.  Offer as a hint, that some of the people are thirsty for water and some of the people are thirsty for something else.  If it fits your theme, encourage them to ponder what they are thirsty for.  During some of the prayers, leave silence in which people can simply listen to the fountain and remember God’s life giving love.

Exodus 17: 1-7

The key to presenting this story to children is Moses’ staff.  It is the staff that connects this story to all the important preceding Exodus stories.  Moses’ staff was turned into a snake at the burning bush.  Aaron turned the staff into a snake which ate the staff/snakes of the Egyptian magicians.  The staff dipped into the Nile turned it into blood.  Held over the Nile, it produced frogs.  Pounded on the dust, it produced gnats.  Moses raised it producing the great hail storm and later the swarm of grasshoppers.  Then, Moses held it out to divide the Sea so that God’s people could pass through safely beyond Pharaoh and his army.  So, bring a large walking stick to display during worship.  With it illustrate a brief account of how Moses used it on the escape from Egypt.  Then read Exodus 17:1-7 emphasizing, maybe picking up the staff as you read, the phrase "take in your hand the staff with which you struck the Nile, and go..." (NRSV)  

I think God used Moses’ staff to remind people that just as God had been with them in the escape from Egypt, God was with them in the hard times in the wilderness.  God would be with them always. 

FYI - “Aaron’s Rod” in Wikipedia notes Jewish, Christian, and Muslim use of this staff that may be fodder for more adult exploration of the staff as a symbol of God’s powerful presence.

To set listeners up for Psalm 95, point out the significance of the names of the well and urge them to listen for those names in another scripture today.  Also note that God’s people camped there for a long time, maybe years, and drew water from that well every day.  Imagine going to a well that reminds you that you tested and quarreled with God about drinking water.

Psalm 95

Read this psalm AFTER exploring the Exodus story.

Start by reading verses 7c-11.  Note the names of the well and the connection to the Exodus story.  Briefly, celebrate being biblical scholars!  Then read the entire psalm.  It could be read by one reader, in unison by God’s people (the congregation), or the separate praises of verses 1-7b could be read by a series of readers with verses 7c – 11 read by another more pensive reader.  The latter would be a good worship leadership opportunity for an older children’s or youth class.

Romans 5:1-11

What Paul might have said to the children:

There is something you need to know that we grownups don’t like to talk about a lot.  Bad things are going to happen to you.  You are going to get sick or hurt.  People you love are going to get sick or hurt.  Or, those people are going to hurt you by what they do.  You may get caught up in war or be the victim of a crime.  Bad stuff like that just happens.  Also, sometimes when you try to do good important things, things that God wants, you might get hurt.  Paul got beaten up for preaching.  Some people in the middle East have been beaten up, even killed, this month for protesting against unjust rulers.  So, you need to know that bad things will happen to you during your life.  You can count on that.

But, you also need to know that God will be with you when those things happen.  You can count on that too.  Sometimes it won’t feel like God is there.  It is easy to get mad at God when bad things are happening.  We yell, “Why don’t you stop it, God?”   We worry that God must not love us if this is happening to us.  We wonder if we are so bad that God is punishing by letting the bad things happen to us.  Sometimes, we even wonder if God is there at all.  At times like this it is important to remember that God loves us always and is with us even when the bad stuff happens. (Say it again, slowly for emphasis.) God may even be working through us to take care of the world.  We can count on that.  We have to depend on our heads to remember this even when our feelings can’t.

Remember, even Jesus got whipped, nailed to a cross, and died.  But that was not the end of his story.  He was raised on Easter.  It is the same with us.  The bad times are never the end of our stories.  Remember that.

Paul might have gathered the children to tell them this.  Or, in the middle of talking to the adults  (aka , “the sermon”) he might have said, “Children, this is for you.  Listen up.” 

We don’t talk to children like this often.  For that reason, doing so can be memorable.  It can also prepare children for the bad times when they do come.

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The cross is a reminder of Paul’s message about suffering.  Point to crosses in your sanctuary and tell stories of suffering in your congregation and community.  Describe how looking back we can see God’s presence in those times. 

Give the children ( or all worshipers) a small cross to carry with them as a reminder that God is with them in bad times as well as good.  Oriental Trading Company is one on-line source for such things.  Click on Oriental Trading Company crosses for a vast array of inexpensive crosses for distribution.  My favorite one for today is a polished worry stone printed with a cross.  Unfortunately, those are almost one dollar a piece – maybe a little pricey.

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“There’s A Wideness in God’s Mercy” again comes to mind as an appropriate child accessible hymn.  Perhaps it can be sung repeatedly this Lent.  If you do use it, remember to introduce “mercy” as “love” before it is sung.

Paul’s message is an opportunity to do a little worship education about the Benediction.  Ask the children to join you at the front to help you with the Benediction.  Briefly note that worship ends the same way every Sunday.  A worship leader stands up front and urges everyone to do something during the coming week and then reminds them that God will be with them as they do it. Then walk them through the benediction below.  Finally ask them to stand with you facing the congregation and to repeat each line after you.  If it is appropriate in your tradition, lead them in raising their hands to bless the congregation as they repeat the last 2 phrases.

Remember when good things happen this week

God is with you.

Remember if bad things happen this week

God is with you.

So,

Go in peace.

Amen

John 4:5-42

Most of this story is a very sophisticated conversation between Jesus and a Samaritan woman at a well.  Children, however, can skip the conversation about water and hear a calling a disciple story.  Jesus treated the total outsider with respect and kindness.  Nobody treated her that way!  In response, she left her water jug (like the fishing disciples left their nets and Levi left his tax office) and became the first evangelist, telling everyone in town about Jesus.  And, she was  successful.  The town believed her first and then believed Jesus.  That is a story worth remembering.  As they get older, children can appreciate the conversation that was at the heart of the story.

Children do need an introduction to the Samaritan woman before they can understand her encounter with Jesus.  They need to know all the things that meant Jesus shouldn’t care at all about her.  She is a Samaritan.  She is a woman.  She is so unpopular that she comes to get water in the middle of the day when she thinks no one else will be there to say mean things to her or call her names.  She is a real loser. 

If you want to explore the conversation:  The water image in this story is complicated.  It’s not just water, it’s living water.  Explaining the word play there simply doesn’t help children get the joke.  It is more productive to put John’s message into your own words for them.  Verses 31 -34 are a good place to start.  Jesus says it takes something other than food and water to make us feel “alive.”  Jesus felt like he had everything he needed after talking to the lonely lost woman and seeing her feel that she was “alive” again. 

Before reading the verses, list some of things that make people feel “alive” today – soccer, their music, spending time with a good friend, etc.  Note that those things can make us feel more “alive” than food or water.  Then read what Jesus said about what made him feel “alive.”

That something other than food or water makes us feel “alive” is not so surprising.  What is surprising is what Jesus says keeps him “alive.”  It is loving like God loves.  In this story it is making friends with a really outsider woman and in the process making her feel totally different about herself.  This can lead to descriptions about how people felt about working on congregational mission projects.  (Be sure to include projects in which children participate.)

I’ve been trying to identify a baptism connection to this story for children – but am coming up dry.  Anyone else have ideas about this?  Please, share in the Comments.

No matter how you unpack this story, it is a very long scripture reading!  It is mainly a conversation between Jesus and the woman.  To bring it to life and edit out all the “he said”s and “she said”s, present it with three readers.  The Narrator reads from the lectern.  Jesus sits near the center of the worship space.  The woman stands beside him.  All read from scripts inside dark binders.  A rehearsal in which emphasis is on reading dramatically will be essential.  Below is one simple script.

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Narrator:  So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.  A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her,

Jesus:  Give me a drink. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)

Woman:  How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?  (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)

Jesus:  If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

Woman:  Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?  Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?”

Jesus:  Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.

Woman: Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.

Jesus: Go, call your husband, and come back.

Woman: I have no husband.

Jesus:  You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!

Woman: Sir, I see that you are a prophet.  Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.

Jesus:  Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.  But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.  God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

Woman:  I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.

Jesus:  I am he, the one who is speaking to you.

Narrator:  Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” ²⁸ Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people,

Woman walks off and faces away from Jesus.

Woman: Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?

Narrator :   They left the city and were on their way to him. Turning back toward Jesus.  Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”  But he said to them,

Jesus:  I have food to eat that you do not know about.

Narrator:  So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?”   Jesus said to them,

Jesus:  My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.  Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.  The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.  For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’   I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.

Narrator:  Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.”  So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days.  And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”

From New Revised Standard Version

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