Last week I watched the classic Disney movie Pete’s Dragon with the family. At one point during the movie I thought to myself, they don’t make them like this anymore. Not that the movie is technically brilliant, I’m sure for it’s day it was; but the simplicity in this movie is what stood to to me… and the innocence.

It seems that movies today have become somewhat cynical. Even movies such as Enchanted and Ella Enchanted have an air of cynicism to them. And while I don’t mind movies that have a tongue in cheek element to them, as I watched Pete’s Dragon I marveled that the movie seemed so out of place with today’s new breed of movies.

There was once a time when my faith was so simple; I remember a time when I wasn’t all bogged down with ideas and theologies and ideologies and philosophies… and yet, here I am now with my head buzzing and reeling with all kinds of “faith” stuff.

In Scripture Jesus talks about the faith of a child being a better way (Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17). And why? Because the faith of a child is simple. A child believes his parents when they tell him something, and I’ve noticed that children have no problem believing in Santa, elves, the Tooth Fairy, and even God. The older we get the more cynical we become, and whereas children don’t always require proof, we adults usually want proof.

That’s where faith comes in. In my early days as a Christian I had great faith, yet now I find myself longing more and more for the proof. My prayer is that I can once again have that all trusting faith, the kind of faith that doesn’t need mountains of CSI type evidence, but believes despite the lack of hard facts…

Bless you,

Chris
March 2010

Picture by B. Patro

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