Viewing Slumdog

I finally saw "Slumdog Millionaire," a new film by Danny Boyle, yesterday evening with a good friend. It was well made, an interesting, Dickens-esque story, somewhat suspenseful, had incredible music...but I don't know if I could bear to see it again. I'll ruin a little portion of the movie's plot now (rather than revealing the secret of the ending) to bring this up: showing kids getting hurt makes me nauseous and makes me feel angry--especially since what is practiced in the film's story actually occurs today in human slavery kinds of situations. It supposedly makes them more effective beggars. I saw evil revealed that I hadn't concerned myself with before, and I'm disturbed--not sure what I'm going to do about it yet either. I don't think it's the sort of thing you can just throw money at. But maybe there is some way to buy people out of slavery. Maybe adoption is an answer? I welcome comments...

Poem/Prayer by Sir Francis Drake

I was moved by this from 1577--hope you will be, too:

Disturb us, O Lord,
When we are too well pleased with ourselves;
When our dreams have come true, because we dreamed too little;
When we arrived safely, because we sailed too safely to the shore.

Disturb us, O Lord,
To dare more boldly;
To venture on wider seas;
Where storms will show Your mastery
Where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars

We ask you to push back the horizons of our hopes
and
to push us into the future, in strength, courage, hope, and love

This we ask in the name of our Captain, who is Jesus Christ.