Showing posts with label abide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abide. Show all posts

Sunday, October 4, 2009

Bottle Shock:: Jesus Changed Water to Excellent Wine ... No?

MooPig Movie Reviews: Bottle Shock, 2008


Modesty -- less traveled path
by Pat Darnell

Bottle Shock -- Like a promise to Sons by their Fathers, a bride for prides, Bill Pullman takes us on a ride through toil and dust, letting a convergent spirit to evolve between he and his son.

What is the first curse upon sinful men placed on mankind by the Lord God Creator of Heaven and Earth ... eh? And you "man, will struggle to live making your way by scratching in the dust of Earth..." or similar?


Cultivation of wine never ceases to be a really great metaphor for life throughout centuries of human habitation.


Based on true stories that literally blow your mind: real issues in Bo Barrett's and his family life revolve around DIRT -- The soils in what is now the famous Napa Valley generally are very deep and have high potential productivity. They are used for vineyards, orchards, and pastures.


Meanwhile, it turns out soils just south of the valley have lower production potential because they are limited by a strongly developed subsoil. They are used mainly for dryland pasture and for oats and hay.

"Take our word for it, this story is as big and as earth shake-rattle-n-rolling as landing on the Moon," said Valarie Duty, Wine Tasting Expert, and Suitcase Model, for Aficionado Magazine. "What makes the dirt part of the story is its origins. It's Volcanic ash sedimentary soils,the soils formed in deep deposits of alluvium derived mainly from basic igneous and rhyolitic bedrock," explains Miss Duty.

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Synopsis: Snapes Severus treks from Paris, goes to California's vintner's fledglings whose industries seem to be scurrilous and ready to Vulgate peak eruptions of perfections in productions of virtuoso wines.
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And guess what? Money is scarce. The banks are calling in their loans on Billy Pullman's enterprises, and he starts to show signs of dementia, by shadow boxing himself into a corner. He is held there by pride stemming from his illicit desire to show her up, his estranged ex-wife who by the way has the money. Wx-wife is eat up but somehow pulls Pullman out through collaborations with their son. Even the bartender helps the cause.

Now, Bo, the son, is a trip. All the other characters have trembly lips, yes, too as the story unfolds. Truth in DIRT starts to make sense to us movie-goers. Hippie throwback Bo goes to Paris and stumble-bums into fame like a punch drunk UFC fighter.

"Wine the color of shit; interesting," says an American in Paris to his ambivalent British wine snob, Snape Severus, who is on a break from wand-tending to make this ground-breaking, epic PG-13 movie, with cast of thousands of grapes.

Modesty is the virtue of slaves. Cultivation of the grape is life. The father becomes a despot and takes on the task of "I'm gonna' make it happen." His loving son helps in mysterious ways, though Bo Barrett carries no magic wand.

"Billy Pullman is well known for his other roles, such as Chrissie Ricci's dad in Casper a decade back. As a landmark in most of our foreboding cinemas, Pullman seems to get all the breaks in being cast," said our Resident Movie Critic and Geologist, Tammy Walker Paisley.

No bacchanal ?? Just kidding, there are a couple of mid-night rambles, and besides it is the post-WoodStock Era, pre-Stadium Rock Epoch.

And there is an Intern that shows up in a VW. She has to be initiated into wine culture dogma, obsession, and idyllic polygamous relationships.


Welcome to Goosecross Cellars from David Topper on Vimeo.



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REFERENCE:

The first recorded miracle performed in public by Jesus of Nazareth was when his mother sent him to change the water in large containers to wine. This was in the waning hours of the festival, after all the wine had been consumed by wedding party guests gathered after marriage.

One guest approached the Groom saying, "Most hosts would serve the least flavored wine at the end of the party. You, on the other hand have saved the best wine for last."
Articles from Plutarch on reason for marriages uses bitter-sweet as metaphor:
Viniculture, viticulture [Nomos] means "custom," "convention," and "melody." This ambiguity explains the transition or sequence of thought between first two protaganists; father and son.
Examples -- 1. [Solon] ordered that the bride should eat some quince before retiring to bed with the bridegroom. He meant to suggest ... that the first favor of lip and voice should be harmonious and sweet.

2. In Boeotia, when they veil the bride, they give her a garland of asparagus. This is a plant that gives the sweetest fruit from the sharpest thorn, just as the bride will give a life of calm and sweetness to the man who does not shrink from, or feel distaste for, the first harsh and disagreeable impressions. (Sorry, I forget where I got the Plutarch words, pdaf)

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Jesus expounded on this condition of continual seeking in the Gospel of John. He called it "abiding."

Retrieved by Pat Darnell


This is one of my favorite things to discover in our gospel, good news, message from Jesus, lover of His Father, steadfast encourager of us.

Sometimes it becomes so clear after a bit of explanation, I get a "funny feeling" which I have come to identify as "strong shoulders." Why are we blessed in so many aspects of our lives?

The excerpt below highlights verses described by Jesus how He and His word abides in me, when I ask of Him all my concerns through prayer, it is done.

Jesus abides as the Word and the Life in you and me; we ask what we ask, and Jesus hears his Words and remembrance of His Life with us. Prayer "is" because Jesus "is" -- Because "I am," you "are." [See John 15:7 as reference.]

When I become aware of this type of argument in the Bible, I kind of have a feeling in my shoulders, I get a feeling of "attachment." I feel as if I belong and I feel capable; as Jesus abides in me, I will ask for and find peace, love, joy, happiness ... and all functions of Jesus's wholeness. It feels like a wrap.

What follows is excerpt of a sermon on prayer. If you click on the source link you can see the entire article.

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Three Steps to Answered Prayer Matthew 7:7-8
by Robert L. Cobb
-Administrator, News For Christians Dot Com


II. THE PRINCIPLE OF ABIDING seek, and ye shall find
The second great principle of answered prayer is to seek. This word, "zete", means to seek in order to find out by thinking, meditating,and reasoning; to inquire into. God continually calls on His people to seek Him in His fullness.

Mat. 6:33
But seek ye first his kingdom
, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Psa. 27:8;
8 When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; My heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.

Psa. 119:2;
2 Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, That seek him with the whole heart.

Pro. 8:17;
17 I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Isa. 55:6;
6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:

Jer. 29:13;
13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Heb. 11:6
...that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Jesus expounded on this condition of continual seeking in the Gospel of John. He called it "abiding."

*[NOTE: If you, as my brothers in Christ, never hear another word from me, what
follows from Brother John's text is the most important discovery in my personal search for meaning, hope and truth. We all have at least one verse that we have memorized: mine happens to be Matthew 6:33 which is written more than three times, in different words all with same meaning, in various other books, as is shown here in John chapter 15. patdarnell]*
John 15:4-7
4 Abide in me
, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

To abide in the Vine (in Christ) is a threefold proposition. We abide in Him in relationship to place, time and condition.

We abide with Him wherever He is, all the time, and in whatever condition we find ourselves.

This is the fullness of the Christian life! This is the ultimate of Christian living! This is the place where we find answers to our prayers!

There is a living connection between the vine and the branch. The life and fruitfulness comes from the vine to the branches.

Jesus says Without me ye can do nothing. We can be successful only by Christ dwelling and abiding in us. We can be pleasing to Him only by abiding.

Notice especially verse 7: If ye abide in me and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Contrast this verse with James 4:3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

One commentator called this the "absence of holy desire," and surely it is. There is no "asking amiss" when we abide in Him, for His desires and blessings flow from the vine to the branches. We are one in our prayers! (Cobb, Robert L. 2006. Three Steps to Answered Prayer Matthew 7:7-8)