Tuesday, July 17, 2007: oh harry day.
watched Harry Potter today with raymond, joy, mark, joseph pang and josh sim. (: was a fun fun time although the theatre at lido was kinda dodgy :S
was thinking about the Harry Potter movie on the way back home and how typical it was: good versus evil, good triumphs over evil. but yet i loved the lesson that was brought up by the movie. you know the part where Voldemort manipulated Harry Potter to think in such a way that he shouldnt implicate his friends in his problems so that he'd be alone and it would be so much easier to destroy Harry.
drawing a parallel from this, we see how God had designed us to be in relationship with one another. how He has provided friends as support for us in the mundane everyday life so that we would be able to fight against the one thing that wants to destroy us. interesting eh?
but i think the most important lesson i relearnt today was the fact that even though the Harry Potter movie i saw today was just mediocre and common, it all plays a part in building the Harry Potter story up into the final saga - into what Harry Potter will become in the last book that is coming out this weekend.
i was reminded of how just like the movie i am subjected to mediocrity and commoness. a train of thought this morning as i walked along the street: i was amazed at how far God has brought me to, and i saw a glimmer of what God had in store for my future. loveMGS, sunday school ministry, mission trips. i was reminded of how the opportunities that God has given me now has/can/will build me up to fufil those roles in the future. it occured to me that even though i am not someone great God still can use me to play a part in that magnificent finale.
anyway, it was an interesting day out today. bubble tea, far east chicken rice, harry potter, and starbucks mocha. nice way to complete the holiday. cheesecake at siglap tonight with raymond and joy! exciting.
a shout of praise.
7:49 PM
