![]() ![]() She thinks she’s messed up and remembers all the times her mother told her she was a mess. The movie opens very powerfully with Alice telling Charlie she’s pregnant. LIKE ARROWS is beautifully filmed, well-acted and has good dialogue in a meandering story about a married couple spending a lifetime learning how to parent their children. However, it may not attract a really broad moviegoing audience, which is too bad because LIKE ARROWS teaches a lot of good things about parenting in a dramatic, engaging format. In fact, parents will learn much from it. As it is, though, Christians will enjoy the movie. The movie could have been easily fixed in script form. ![]() ![]() However, unlike an arrow, the story meanders because there’s no clear target. However, they’ve lost Ron, who’s become an atheist. They learn children need direction, like arrows. Finally, they go to the church to seek help. The movie skips ahead, and Charlie, a workaholic, is too busy so he is losing his children. Alice eventually has three children, Ron, Kate and Joshua, and the couple adopts an Asian girl, named Faith. Alice and Charlie decide to get married when Alice becomes pregnant. No two are the same, and each one will find a different trajectory when you finally loose them from the bow, but as a favourite professor of mine used to say: “If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time.LIKE ARROWS is a beautifully filmed and well-acted drama about a married couple spending a lifetime learning how to parent their children. And your task is to prepare them, to encourage them to fly true to their target. As you invest time with your young arrows, remind yourself that they are intended for a purpose. Do everything you can to teach them to think sharply. Apply straightening pressure wisely, not as a random show of power. Know them, understand them, guide and strengthen them. Raising children means taking responsibility to give them the best chance of reaching their potential. So if children are like arrows in this particular image, then the corresponding ideas apply. Some woods snap easier than others, and it takes a little experience to know just where to apply pressure to keep everything in line, and so anticipate a good result. For the warrior this takes diligence, care, and an understanding of the composition of his arrows. Then they have the best chance to fly true and effectively meet their intended purpose when the time comes. The warrior’s job, while his arrows are in the quiver, is to make sure they are straight, strong, and sharp. In the quiver, arrows are the archer’s responsibility. For the warrior – if you think about it – arrows don’t actually fulfil their purpose in the quiver, but rather when they are loosed from the bowstring and sent to their target. Nor is his task to just lug them around for no reason, snagging them on the furniture and getting frustrated with their nuisance-value. So let me ask you a warrior question: Of what purpose are your arrows? The work of the battle-archer is surely not to parade around showing off his collection of darts all polished in their case. In order to understand a warrior image, we have to think like a warrior. How does this brief snapshot of a warrior teach us about fatherhood? What is the similarity between children and arrows? Why is this image significant? If we’re not careful, the mind-picture can be easily glimpsed over and some of its deeper nuances can be missed. When they contend with their enemies in the gate. Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one’s youth.īlessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. The last two verses of Psalm 127 speak of the blessings of fatherhood in terms that an archer would understand: Psalm 127 is one of the “Songs of Ascent,” which can be thought of as pilgrim songs for the road up to Jerusalem. The poetry of the psalms is compact and profound – they work like pictures for the mind and emotions and we know a picture is often worth a thousand words. Some have referred to it as ancient Israel’s hymnal. The Book of Psalms is a collection of songs and prayers. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |