Here is the description of the fourth week of our Movement series:
Everyone wants to live. It is basic human nature. The desire triggers the fight or flight rush of adrenaline when we sense danger - this desire drives much of who we are. When someone is killed we mourn for the loss of life. When murder is done we punish the perpetrator. When someone takes their own live we are confused and saddened. We all desperately want to live, but are we living lives that are worth living? Are we fully alive? Do we really know what it means to be human - or more importantly - what it means to be made in the image of God? When Jesus was on earth he told us that he was where true life was found and that to find life we first had to die. In the death to the old, selfish way of life we discover the freedom in the life lived for God and for others. Jesus came to offer us true life, abundant life, and this is exactly what we should be offering to the world around. As we live lives that are fully alive we show the truth that others can live this same way to, both now and in eternity.
Brainstormed Art Ideas:
Movie Clips:
Lady in the Water – Paul Giamatti's character at the beginning
The Weather Man – Choices clip with Nick Cage
Chariots of Fire – I Feel God’s Pleasure
The Lion King
Superhero Movies – Superman, Spider Man 3, The Incredibles, Mystery Men
K-PAX
Awakenings – Robin Williams
Harry Potter – Dumbledore –it’s your choices Harry…
Mr. Holland’s Opus
Freedom Writers – Dead Poet’s Society – Mona Lisa Smile -
Batman Begins - It’s your actions that define you
My Life – the video for his children
Final Cut - Obituaries
Stranger Than Fiction – The Final Scene where he chooses to save
Braveheart – Every man dies – not every man really lives
Gladiator
Saving Private Ryan – Why are we going to save him? And Cemetery scenes – did I live a life worth their sacrifice
TV:
Life - TV show
Robot Chicken Sketch Revolving Around the Life Board Game
Smallville – references purpose in life a lot
24 – choice clip
Simpsons Episode where Homer realizes he hasn’t done anything in life
Music:
This is Your Life – Switchfoot
Life – Our Lady Peace
100 Years – Five for Fighting
Things I Prayed For – Eli
I Just Wanna Live – Good Charlotte
Bring Me to Life – Evanescense
So Alive – Ryan Adams
Teaching Myself How to Grow Old – Ryan Adams
Alive – P.O.D.
Take Me As I Am - Tonic
Art:
The Game of Life – game pieces
Quotes – from John Eldridge Books
Art Installation – quotes hanging from the ceiling – pieces of wood
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
--Macbeth (V, v, 19)
2 comments:
Alexithymia by Anberlin relates well to this topic. It focuses on the line 'there's more to living than being alive' Here are the lyrics:
"Alexithymia"
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything you say
Anymore, in the morn, in the morning
Bricks to this old house are breaking
Steel would have weathered but now forlorning
It's alarming how loud the silence screams
No warn, no warn, no warning
Addictions fill the table where the family used to sit
And conversate
Conversate to the sounds
To the sounds of a record player
With it's jumping needle and the lights that grow dim over time
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
Are you where you thought you'd be
So beautiful and only twenty-three
Opposition rests in the hearts
With no, with no, with no opportunity
It's not that we don't talk
It's just no one really listens and honesty fades
Like a politician lost in the course
All smiles and no one remembers our names
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
Don't try to wake me up
Even if the sun really does come out tomorrow
Don't believe anything I say
Anymore, in the morn, in the morning
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
With downcast eyes
There's more to living than being alive
Coming to Life by The Normals could be a great after message song. Here are the lyrics:
Coming To Life
by The Normals
I always listened to the same sad song in the wintertime when I drive home
Then her and I’d sit on her couch where we used to dream of falling in love
And all this time I thought that she had killed me
And all these years I spent in the graveyard weeping
But I feel blood pouring through these veins after all
And I feel blood washing through these stains after all
And I am coming to life
I spent a thousand lone cold nights thinking I would gladly hurt if I could feel
I spent a thousand empty days just looking for a girl to make me real
And all this time your face was all around me
And all those loving arms that held me so close
And I feel blood pouring through these veins after all
And I feel blood washing through these stains after all
And I am coming to life
All I taste and all I feel all I found is you is real and right and I am coming to life
You are the breath I breathe You hold me to belief
You died so I could be alive and free from me and I am coming to life
I used to listen to the same sad song in the wintertime when I drive home
Then her and I’d sit on her couch where we used to dream of falling in love
Post a Comment