a drawbridge and Calvary's Maunday Thursday

I love this week. We celebrated Maundy Thursday tonight. Instead of a sermon, Dan intro'd a short film entitled Most. It's a re-telling of the story of a single father who takes his eight year-old son to work with him at the railroad drawbridge where he is the bridge tender. Just as an oncoming train approaches, his son falls into the drawbridge gear works, leaving the father with a horrific choice.

A couple of interesting trivialities:
The film was written by the bully from Karate Kid, Billy Zabka. Karate Kid was actually on tv today when I left the house.
It was in Czech, with subtitles in English. My six year old daughter told my wife, "I liked the movie, but it would have made more sense if I could have read all the words." Priceless.

MOST is a beautiful and haunting picture of the transformation that is possible in all of us because of the work of Jesus Christ. I have been asking God to continue this work of transformation in me.

Here's God's response, from a letter written to a church thousands of years ago:

I am certain that God, who began the good work within you, will continue his work until it is finally finished on the day when Christ Jesus returns.

Oh yeah, that's what I'm looking forward to...