After a brief sabbatical from the blogging world, I am back! Many great and wonderful things have happened in the past few months.
*I finished reading the Harry Potter series!
*I have started using my monogram machine!
*I semi successfully made my first skirt with an elastic waist!
*I have attempted a few random crafts with my Dad's Cricut!
*I am working a lot of hours at two different jobs!
*I actually started exercising again! Woop!!
*OH! I chopped ALL my hair off! You know, as in Anne Hathaway in Les Mis, short!
I know there is the possibility that I could get a lot of flack for what I have to say in this blog, but, I don't care.
After years of boycotting the Harry Potter series for the simple fact of it being "the cool thing to do", I finally gave in last April. I told Derek I would read every book before our one year anniversary....SUCCESS!! YAY me! :-) Derek is a huge HP fan. Owns all the books...movies....Lego building things....scarf...phone cover...yeah...you get the picture. I, on the other hand, have been less than eager to jump on the band wagon of a story about a boy who is a wizard.
Let me clarify right now, I fully believe there is witchcraft about this world. I fully believe that it is an evil act. I also fully believe this is a piece of literature that is not real nor evil.
Everyone still with me? Hang on tight, here we go...
The more I read Harry Potter, the more interested I became. The more interested I became, the more I was in tune to a deeper connection to my heart.
Harry Potter is an image of Christ.
I know, I know...blasphemer...I know....just hear me out.
We each are created dirty rotten sinners in desperate need of a saviour. Jesus Christ came full of love to take our rottenness and be the one sacrifice for us. We deserve the most ugly and awful fate we could never imagine. Instead, Christ took my ugly fate, made it his own, willingly offered himself for me.
Harry Potter is a boy who fought the evil rottenness which surrounded him. The "bad guy", Voldemort, represents Satan in human form. He seeks to devour, steal, and kill. The fate that awaited humanity was one resembling the dirty rottenness found within Voldemort. Harry took on this fate and sacrificed himself. It was out of his love that he became the ultimate sacrifice.
So, there we go. There is the briefest of the brief statements I have in regards to this topic.
What are your thoughts?
