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Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers – Movie Review

A Movie Review: Christmas with the Chosen, the Messengers.

Christmas With the Chosen: The Messengers – Movie Review

January 17, 2022

(Note: This was written December 7, 2021 when whomever decided my computer’s operating system can’t access wordpress anymore)

First thing you have to know – I love Christmas! 

Second thing… I’m usually the one who talks everyone else out of going to the movies.  I’d rather sit at home and wait until it’s free. 

I have gone to the local theater for movies like “WarRoom” and “Overcomer.”  We decided to go to the theater for the “Christmas with the Chosen: The Messengers” movie last Saturday evening. 

Wow!

I have only seen part of one episode of the Chosen.  I do not like watching screens alone and when I’m home, we tend to be doing something outside, playing board games, or Louis is watching a sports game.  After this, I really want to watch them all.  Hopefully, it won’t be like the Bones series.  Grandma Joanne introduced Christina and Becky seven years ago.  We watched them after the littles went to bed and I was dispatching late at night (cab company era) usually one or two episodes each week or two.  I got to season three, we had to start borrowing from the library and the girls got impatient!  They would breeze through them!  Christina and Becky saw them all, then rewatch it and Kimberly saw them all, now Jaquline is even farther in the series than I am! 

At least with The Chosen, we can watch them with everyone. 

At the theater, my Mom and one of Christina’s friends joined us.  “Tart, party of twelve!” – our nine, one sister-cousin, one friend, and one Grandma… we took up half of a row!  

In retrospect, I have to laugh at all the wiggling feet and trying to be considerate but busting with worship sing-along voices!  Becky said if Christina’s parents’ guide website had been better informed, they would have mentioned it was best to observe this film from the back rows if your party has the proclivity to get roused into song and dance by concert-style worship songs – Becky called it “Passion camp on film.”  My only dancer who got to her feet was Thea, but she is little so everyone behind us could still see over her.  I wanted to dance!  I would have blocked too many peoples’ views though… I literally had to stop myself a few times.

I still think The Nativity Story is the most realistic culturally accurate story highlighting Mary and Joseph’s journey.  However, this film was incredible!  It had a short portion that showed, in what I’m gathering is the style of the series The Chosen, the journey of Mary and Joseph with a bit of a twist (no spoiler, I promise). 

If you enjoy music or historical reenactments, this is a must-see movie event.  

Thank you for reading,

Type at you next time!

~Nancy Tart

Worm-Savers

Squirmy Worms on a flooded morning = Worm-Savers to the rescue!

January 29, 2018

Worm-Savers

It had rained all Sunday evening and most of the early Monday morning to leave a cool, wet ground at college today.  As happens when water floods the grass, insects leave trying to find dry land.  On the way to the potty, (Lucas has started “Big Boy Pants” and when he says “I gotta go potty!” he means quickly!) Jaquline spied a worm wriggling on the parking lot and shrieked, “Mom! He’ll get run over!”

Jillian grabbed at it, “let’s save him!”

Mom watched for cars.

The girls and Lucas grabbed every soggy earthworm on the cement or asphalt on the way into the building and on the way back to the vehicle.  (It was periodically misting and the tables were all soaking wet so we had to do schoolwork in the dry van.)

“We’re worm-savers!” Jaquline announced, “every worm we save is helping plants grow strong.”

“I like squirmy worms!” Lucas added.

They are just little earthworms, but doing something small (saving worms) made them feel like they were doing something big!

“God put us here to save those worms, you know,” Jillian said.

AHA!  Teaching moment!  Yes, God puts us where He wants us even just to do something we see as small; like smile at someone.  Just like picking up an earthworm isn’t much to you (but it’s the entire world for that earthworm!) sometimes a genuine smile helps encourage people.  God will put you where He can use your joy to encourage others.  Don’t you feel happier when you see someone else happy?

“I’m happy being a worm-saver!” Jaquline giggled.  “Just like how Alena and Joseph save Tawny!  These worms won’t die now!” (She loves the newest  Devonians book: in “A Foundling Furball” the youngsters save an injured baby pup.)

In the few minutes of worm-saving, a few dozen squirming worms were in the grass (Lucas squealed each time one quickly disappeared into the dirt).  Their consideration for the tiny creatures and effort to save them certainly encouraged me.  God often uses my children to illustrate the simplest things that I try to make hard – today it was stop being so busy and help by doing what you can.

I needed to hear that.

Thanks for reading!

Type at you later…

~Nancy Tart

 

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