White Oleander

Sometimes I sit and wonder about the best way to show the World around me that I love Jesus.
I think about how to sit at others' tables, eat and drink with them and still differentiate myself. Words just don't cut it. Often it takes a relationship with people to make show the difference. I want to be on my guard so that I am able to resist one of my biggest temptations--complacency.

I was watching White Oleander and the phrase "redemption through relationships' struck me that the main character found her life and death in relationships. I know this isn't anything new. It feels like common knowledge that relationships form who we are and give us our identity. There is something more powerful here. Relationships make or break us. Mostly if the relationships in your life are shitty they break you. That being true, it only takes one great relationship to redeem a life or rather, make a life worth living. This 'redemption of the living' idea that I found in White Oleander made me hopeful. A meaningful relationship with Christ, or his people can mean life for some who are the walking dead. The flipside: a hollow relationship with His family can turn those who don't know Christ away.