PAY IT FORWARD ONE of my most favorite movies Is a movie called PAY IT FORWARD It is a 2000 movie BASED on the novel Of the same name It boasts a stellar cast INCUDING: Helen Hunt-Kevin Spacey-Haley Joe Osment and many other names you would recognize Including Angie Dickinson But it is the THEME of the movie That hit me RIGHT in the heart Osment is a seventh grade student In Las Vegas, Nevada And his social studies teacher (Spacey) GIVES the class an assignment To devise and put into action “A plan That would change the world For the better” What a novel thought DO SOMETHING KIND or good For someone Rather than Rape, steal, defraud, etc., etc., etc., someone “God saw ALL that he made and it was very good” Genesis 1:31 MY GOD What has happened to This world BETWEEN then and now- Some 2,000 years later “TASTE AND SEE That the Lord is GOOD BLESSED is the man Who takes refuge in him” Psalm 34:8 In the movie, “PAY IT FORWARD,” The teacher asks the students (including Osment) To do three favors For others Rather than paying the favor back But the favor Must be a “MAJOR FAVOR” That the receiver Cant complete themselves And isnt that the way Our own lives are Without GODS FAVOR in it We were CREATED In GODS own image And if God can bestow Life, love, forgiveness, and kindness On us Isnt that The LEAST that we can do For someone else “Then God said: Let us make man In our image- in our likeness” Genesis 1:26 “For you created My inmost being You knit me together In my mothers womb I PRAISE YOU For I am wonderfully made Your WORKS are wonderful I know that full well” Psalm 139:13-14 Whatever goodness lies in you Pass it on PAY IT FORWARD Use it To help someone else In the movie Osment (Trevor) DOES FAVORS for three people Asking each of them To pass it on Initially-with mixed results -And ultimately Costing Trevor his very own life But our lives BY NATURE Have a cost-death The BEST that we can HOPE for IS to have a LASTING EFFECT By taking all the BLESSINGS That we have And passing them on PAY IT FORWARD Robert P. Wallman 10-25-13 ps misc. WITNESS 2-6-14 ON SITES 8-14-14
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