While talking to my friend V, today about how I love a sweet-romance when it comes to a story, I stumbled upon this particular one and I absolutely loved it!

Defiance: The Anthology

 Have a good read of it. It's short but sweet, like shortcrust pastry or a small chocolate bar. I shall give my movie review of Defiance very soon, but here's a little sneak peak:

Defiance: A Movie Review

Defiance is an absolutely amazing movie. Set during World War II in the Belarussian forests, Jewish brothers, Tuvia, Zus, Asael and Aron set off to avenge the deaths of their beloved family and friends; by staying alive.

Joining forces with the Russian partisan (resistance fighters) they endeavoured to build a village in the intimate location of the forests in order to protect themselves and more than 1000 Jewish non-combatants. The four brothers found the impossible task of scrounging for food and weapons while being hunted down by the Germans. 

This movie is a highly recommended movie and a truly moving film with amazing performances from Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber and young stars Jamie Bell and Mia Wasikowska.

That's why we're here.

It was a typical Sunday afternoon, I sat still on my chair, relaxed in spirit but uncomfortable physically. The chairs were hard and they hurt my back. 'It's okay,' I thought. 'It's all for God.'

Every Sunday afternoon, you would find myself at church. You can never find me anywhere but church every Sunday, you can be sure of that. There are many ways to locate me while I am present there:

1.) Every praise and worship session, I would either be sitting down with a laptop in front of me doing the powerpoint slideshows or be up on stage playing keys, 2.) When the service begins (preaching and so on) I would either be finishing the announcements on the laptop or sitting on one of the chairs next to the friends or the cousins.

That particular Sunday afternoon I sat cross-armed and ankle-crossed staring outside the window. The trees swayed with the wind, side to side they went, their branches like the arms of the African people when they were deep in worship, as seen in TV and as awed by me. I tilted my head and smiled. How beautiful are God's creation. Even though they were the only trees there surrounded by a maze of asphalt roads and bricked buildings, there was no stopping them from worshipping.

Then a thought suddenly came, a realisation that shook my thoughts to the core. As humans, I know, as my personal opinion and because of the Bible, that we were created by God, given life and air to breathe, given the strength and power to face everyday for one thing; to worship.

Right then and there did I realise the huge analogy that would most likely rock generations of confused Christians such as myself, once; the wind was created by God and they cause the trees to bend and sway as an act of worship. God created us and He created the air we breathe...

Doesn't it make any sense?

God created everything in this world for one purpose; and that is to worship Him. There's no need to dilly dally and be distracted. It's not too hard to worship God. A simple thank You to him for all that he's done for you or a simple gesture of help to someone who needs it is already an act of worship. Let's not make this any harder, it's already simple enough.

You don't have to be a Christian to worship your Creator. He's already there, simply waiting for you to call on Him.