My oldest daughter is now in the double digits; she is ten. We have friends that have a nice bed time system that we have adopted: single digits 8pm, double digits 10pm and teens no established bed time. Now my oldest daughter keeps herself busy in the evenings by reading, writing, drawing, playing with her guinea pig or whatever else suits her fancy. Last night I wanted to preview a new kid’s movie that papa had brought home so I asked her to join me. She was thrilled! We cuddled in under the cover of the quilt my mother and aunts had made us for our wedding. It was so sweet to have some daughter mama time. And the movie really was delightful.
The whole time you are watching the show you are thinking, “This must be a great book.” While it may be a great book the truth is that the book was written after the movie was made. There are some interesting scenes. I wanted to share my favorite.
Mr. Magorium is a 243 year old toy store owner that is about to depart and leave the shop to his apprentice Molly Mahoney. She is devastated that he would leave and decides to show him how much he has to stay for. She plans a mischievous day full of things like dancing on packing bubbles and jumping on beds in a bed store. One of her fun ideas is go to a clock store and set all the clocks to chime at the same time so they can hear the wonderful noise. They get all the clock set and hide by a great grandfather clock. This is the dialog they have:
Mahoney: Now we wait.
Mr. Magorium: No. We breathe. We pulse. We regenerate. Our hearts beat. Our minds create. Our souls ingest. 37 seconds well used is a lifetime.
How many of us after we become Christians take on this same “now we wait” attitude? When, in fact, the interim time is a lifetime to fill with living.
In a later scene Mr. Magorium makes a powerful statement that I will close with as we embrace the moments that have been given to us:
“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.”
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ha…
that’s good.
i’ve never heard of said movie. i may need to look for it.
Hey- Thank you for the kind words. It made me feel especially cool that you wrote “wonderful piece”. Piece makes it sound about nine thousand times cooler. Haha. So thanks.
what was your stroke? Was it breastroke?
I was a 100 Freestylist. I loved it. Long enough where I didn’t need to exhaust all my energy in one 25, but short enough where I didn’t die from sprinting four lengths.
thats good!
“the interim time is a lifetime to fill with living.”
LOVE that quote! i dont want to forget to live…
Annie – big smiles to you too!
Alece – did you ever watch Music Man? (wink) I know you are not a musical kind of gal.
This one is a child fantasy.
Becca – Breaststroke is what I preferred to swim – but they always placed me in Free or Back in the relays for the competitions. Most of the swim team stuff I have blocked out of my memories. But I love swimming for endurance, rather than speed. I have a bunch of friends who have ran marathons. I have often wondered what doing a triathlon would be like.
Tam – yes – let us live!
Oh wow, I love this! Love that line – “37 seconds well used is a lifetime” – really inspiring! Funny, God’s been speaking to me about inspiration today
Lots of love.
Birgit the Inspirer – Yes, we are thinking along the same lines today.
Hey! So I am so not a computer person. Even though my husband is…he has his hands full with all the stuff we do here (imagine that) so anywho, are you a computergirl? So my dilemma is that I need to buy or get a domain name and then design a blog. My current situation isn’t working out and I need to get off of typepad and wordpress (the free one) wasn’t working because I ran out of free space…so I think that if I just get my own domain then I won’t have to keep moving around. Bla bla. So if you know what to do or how to help, please email me because I am totally lost. Grrr. The only thing I can offer you in return is prayer and maybe some roibos tea
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Kristi Welcome! I am not the most computer savvy girl you will meet – but we did learn a few things getting my domain set up. I will email you.
Prayer is awesome! and if I am ever in your neighborhood I will be sure to take you up on the roibos tea. Thanks!
I hope to rise to it. And I eagerly await the mother/daughter time with my pre-teens. I have a few years, yet. And how young of a child can watch the Emporium movie did you decide??
I wanted to share a four-year-old funny with you. I bought the girls some mint choc chip ice cream at the store yesterday, the kind that is actually green. Eva said, “Yum!. I think there is green toothpaste in it, Mommy!” I thought you’d like that
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Christy – In my own opinion if you feel fine letting your kids watch “Wizard of Oz” (love that movie!) then they would be more than fine with Mr. Magorium. There are some reviews on line by Christian organizations if you want a more in depth answer.
The four year old funny made me laugh out loud! Eva was completely logical in her observation. Now whenever you guys are going out for ice-cream you can say, “Do you want to go out for toothpaste?” Thanks for the laugh!
oh great quotes. cousin!
my cuz’ – the movie is full of great little quips