An old fable gets the film treatment in a movie that comes out just before Holy Week.
All of us have giants to face.
Maybe you're a 69-year-old retiree with chronic health problems. A 52-year-old man who has been laid off and is having trouble getting interviews. A 45-year old woman, struggling with guilt about choices she made as a young adult. A 33-year-old immigrant with a minimum-wage job and a family many thousands of miles away. A 25-year-old with the beginnings of a drinking problem. A teenager feeling the out-of-control expectations of his parents.
Illness. Unemployment. Guilt. Separation. Substance abuse. The expectations of others.
Giants, every one of them.
So let's talk about giants, and believe it or not, our little talk about giants is going to take us straight to something that happened on Palm Sunday. The giant we're talking about is the giant of the well-known fable that was just released as a movie in theaters across two days ago: Jack the Giant Slayer.
You know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, right? Jack is a boy who lives with his widowed mother,...
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