Vin Diesel is Jesus

There you go. That title got your attention. The point I want to make will be coming soon. First, I want to say that this was a great movie. Yes - it's true that I'm strangely addicted to family comedies and this is no exception. While the movie is full of cliched fish-out-of-water comedy where a highly trained person is put in a position where they know nothing - this one's still good. What can I say - a high-speed pursuit with a teenage girl, while it's the Navy SEAL that's changing the diapers? Good choice, Disney....I guess.. Ok, so it got lousy reviews and I can see exactly why. Anyway - it had a real impact on me. Maybe my mind was already in the right place, but the movie got me thinking about discipline. Commiting to something is somewhat easy - but getting discipline out of me is much harder.

My personal to-do lists pile up sky high while I watch Futurama. My life was so much better when I was doing the hard stuff. In the year 2000, I was in the middle of my senior year of high school and decided to do a feature-length movie with the help of a friend. Ok - so feature-length means 50 minutes, and movie really means cheap video. The point is that I did a lot of things that I neither had the time nor skills to do. How did I accomplish it? I gave it every ounce I had for several months. That is somehow more energizing than depleting. And it stands that for every year since that year, I have longed for those days again. I longed for what I failed to realize was something within my power to have. It wasnt' that it was a "great year," but I made it a great year.

"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men"

-Colossians 3:23

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. I like walking. I like the destination. Now why in the world can't I even wash the dishes when I like my kitchen clean? Simple things are only big things in small shoes.

I want to get back to the beginning of this post. The title. Vin Diesel did one thing that you don't see in movies. Sure, you see people succeeding in movies all the time, but that wasn't important. What was important was his character's priorities. Discipline did not make him boring nor a pure soldier. It made him more human. Now there is something to spend way too long thinking about. But I won't because I aleady had to type this and I don't feel like it :-P.