Sunday Inspiration

Last night, Wallace and I watched Seabiscuit. I hadn't seen it for a long time and couldn't remember the story at all. It's good. It's a story about a horse that's too small and that nobody thinks can race, and a jockey who's too big to race, carrying around a big old chip on his shoulder. The jockey struggles throughout his life as he gets abandoned, beat down and generally abused. Then he meets a man who buys Seabicuit and wants this jockey to race for him. The owner has his own tragedies to wrestle with. The third character is the horse trainer. A man everyone thinks is crazy who won't see a horse get discarded just because it is injured and people think it can't race anymore. He heals horses and brings them back. The owner gives him a shot to prove these horses are worth saving. In the process they show why each of them with their flaws and their strengths are also worth saving.

The story is about courage and about winning - eve when everyone counts you out, and mainly about the fact that you may seem physically, emotionally, or spiritually broken to the world, but when someone believes in you and shows you love...and you have courage...you can overcome all odds and win. Faith does precede the miracle.

Here's the quote the movie ends with:

"A lot of people think we found this broken down horse and we fixed him, but that's wrong. He fixed us. We kind of fixed each other too."

The truth is, we're all broken in some way, or at least at some time in our lives. When we look out for each other, and show love and compassion and faith in someone we would normally cast aside we witness miracles. In them, in ourselves and in the world around us.

So, look..I realize this is a departure in style but it is Sunday after all, and I am feeling touched, inspired, and a bit emotional. And no, I don't have PMS.