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Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I am a Jew. Hath
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.

Usually with the films that I make there are ideas that I connect to, but lately I’ve been dealing with the bittersweet in life because it feels more natural. You don’t ever get it really the way you want in life. That really fascinates me. As an actor, there are certain parts of a character that you create, and you train yourself to have those reactions and then it becomes hard to stop them when the role is over. You have to retrain yourself. My character in this film is like hot grits. You know you can’t shake them off and when you do, it hurts.

These violent delights have
violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire
and powder,
Which, as they kiss, consume.
is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love, moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

There he goes, one of God’s own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable.

I know you think love has been toying with you,
waiting for you to swallow the kitchen knives.
It hasn’t…

5 God’s love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, 6 His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly’s wing can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world.

Just live it.

If I knew it would be the last time That I’d see you fall asleep, I would tuck you in more tightly and pray the Lord, your soul to keep. If I knew it would be the last time that I see you walk out the door, I would give you a hug and kiss and call you back for one more. If I knew it would be the last time I’d hear your voice lifted up in praise, I would video tape each action and word, so I could play them back day after day. If I knew it would be the last time I could spare an extra minute to stop and say ” I love you,” instead of assuming you would KNOW I do. If I knew it would be the last time I would be ther to share your day, Well I’m sure you’ll have so many more, so I can let just this one slip away. For surely there’s always tomorrow to make up for an oversight, and we always get a second chance to make everything just right. There will always be another day to say ” I love you,” And certainly there’s another chance to say our ” Anything I can do?” But just in case I might be wrong, and today is all I get, I’d like to say how much I love you and hope we never forget. Tomorrow is not promised to anyone, young or old alike, And today may be the last chance you get to hold your loved one tight. So if you’re waiting for tomorrow, why not do it today? For if tomorrow never comes, you’ll surely regret the day, That you didn’t take that extra time for a smile, hug, or a kiss and you were to busy to grant someone, what turned out to be their one last wish. So hold your loved ones close today, and whisper in their ear, Tell them you’ll alway hold them dear Take time to say ” I’m sorry,” “Please forgive me,” “Thank you,” or ” It’s okay.” And if tomorrow never comes, you’ll have no regrets about today.

All we can do is make peace with the past and try to learn from it.