Mully: Have you seen it?
If you haven't seen it. Don't worry.
This blog won't spoil anything for your future viewing.
Quick over-view, in case you don't travel in circles where most conversations revolve around foster care/adoptions or movies that Kirk Cameron would support.
Mully is a documentary styled movie about Charles Mully, founder of many different enterprises in Kenya. But this movie centers around his outreach to the orphaned and abandoned children in a beautiful/tragic region.
This movie was full of heart rending moments, and truly, I don't know how anyone can see it, without feeling convicted, pulled, drawn to the orphaned children and discovering a burning need to reach out, if not completely empty your life of all things selfish and prideful.
Maybe you've seen it, and thought, "huh....that's nice" but find no burning need to do anything but go home get in your jammies and turn on your big screen tv. And if that's you. That's 'totes cool. Maybe you just weren't born with a compassionate bone in your body. If you are actually feeling lacking in that part of your body, talk to me, I seem to have been blessed with a few extra. I'm happy to share out of my evident excess.
Watching her make rice for 200, and thinking about what HER laundry must be like.... Can you imagine???
There were a few times where I wasn't sure I was going to like where they were the story was taking us.
(do you ever do that?? You're watching a movie, and your enjoying the scenery and the other characters on this "ride", then you think, WHOAH, wait a second, I signed up for a trip to XYZ... but instead I'm getting the alphabet in another language!!!!)
Anyway, I was getting ^THAT^ feeling when they sent their own children to boarding school, so that they could focus more on the orphans.... And when they were praising their mother for putting up with their father's "crazy ideas". And although I don't agree with how they did what they did, it brings up some good questions about our own little world here.
*Are we doing enough?
*How can we support other people who are also trying to serve the widows and orphans?
*Are we taking enough care with our "bio kids" and their needs?
*Do people see us as a "crazy" leader and a following wife? Or as a team united in purpose?
*How far do you take the caring for orphans? Is it at all costs?
This family gave it all for this calling. They gave up childhoods, and homes, and dreams, and they are leaving a legacy that is reaching the whole country of Kenya and now through this movie they are reaching the western world!
If you have seen it, how did it affect you?
Are you looking for ways to help support the hurting and needy in your neighborhoods?
They say that adopting/fostering is like an addiction.
I don't know about that, but I can tell you that knowing you are making a difference, and having a little person learn to trust you, it's the best thing on earth.
Watching her make rice for 200, and thinking about what HER laundry must be like.... Can you imagine???
There were a few times where I wasn't sure I was going to like where they were the story was taking us.
(do you ever do that?? You're watching a movie, and your enjoying the scenery and the other characters on this "ride", then you think, WHOAH, wait a second, I signed up for a trip to XYZ... but instead I'm getting the alphabet in another language!!!!)
Anyway, I was getting ^THAT^ feeling when they sent their own children to boarding school, so that they could focus more on the orphans.... And when they were praising their mother for putting up with their father's "crazy ideas". And although I don't agree with how they did what they did, it brings up some good questions about our own little world here.
*Are we doing enough?
*How can we support other people who are also trying to serve the widows and orphans?
*Are we taking enough care with our "bio kids" and their needs?
*Do people see us as a "crazy" leader and a following wife? Or as a team united in purpose?
*How far do you take the caring for orphans? Is it at all costs?
This family gave it all for this calling. They gave up childhoods, and homes, and dreams, and they are leaving a legacy that is reaching the whole country of Kenya and now through this movie they are reaching the western world!
If you have seen it, how did it affect you?
Are you looking for ways to help support the hurting and needy in your neighborhoods?
They say that adopting/fostering is like an addiction.
I don't know about that, but I can tell you that knowing you are making a difference, and having a little person learn to trust you, it's the best thing on earth.
This is how I choose to remember this couple.
Side by side.
Working to accomplish a common dream.
Comments
Post a Comment