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<\/a><\/p>\nOne of the more charming movies I\u2019ve recently seen is last year\u2019s \u201cBFG\u201d, directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of the magical adventure of an orphan girl named Sophie, who befriends a big friendly giant (\u201cB.F.G.\u201d).<\/p>\n
A moment that caught my interest occurred midway through the film. Sophie is taken to a mystical tree where dreams are born. These primordial dreams float around like colored fireflies, and can be caught. Most of the dreams are happy, or silly. However, Sophie learns that not all dreams are benign. She catches a glowing red dream and the B.F.G. solemnly warns her to leave that one be, for it is a Trogglehumper. The particular dream that Sophie found was summarized thus:<\/p>\n
\u201cLook what you has done. There be no forgiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now this is downright biblical. It encapsulates a sense of shame that many individuals feel, and can\u2019t easily shake. On an even deeper level, this Trogglehumper represents the collective nightmare of fallen Humanity.<\/p>\n
Who can free us from such a Trogglehumper? The Christian answer is that God can give us a new dream, a better dream, one whose narrative is \u201cHere be forgiveness; here be love.\u201d<\/p>\n
To such a wonderful change in the narrative, our response echoes King David\u2019s song of praise (recorded in Psalm 103):<\/p>\n
Praise the Lord, O my soul One of the more charming movies I\u2019ve recently seen is last year\u2019s \u201cBFG\u201d, directed by Steven Spielberg. It tells the story of the magical adventure of an orphan girl named Sophie, who befriends a big friendly giant (\u201cB.F.G.\u201d). A moment that caught my interest occurred midway through the film. Sophie is taken to a mystical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,369],"tags":[735,740,172,737,736,738,739],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-theological-ideas","tag-b-f-g","tag-dreams","tag-forgiveness","tag-guilt","tag-roald-dahl","tag-shame","tag-trogglehumper"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand all that is within me praise his holy Name.
\nPraise the Lord, O my soul
\nand forget not all his benefits;
\nWho forgiveth all thy sin
\nand healeth all thine infirmities;
\nWho saveth thy life from destruction
\nand crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindness
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