a man for all seasons

A Man For All Seasons,

A movie based on King Henry the V111 wanting a divorce from his wife Catherine.

The king seeking  support from  Sir Thomas Moore, demands that the clergy denounce the Pope, and to name him the head of the Church of England.

Cromwell frames More, forces him to resign as Chancellor, eventually More is brought to trial, found guilty of treason, and is beheaded.

A movie well worth seeing by all. It was recommended to me by a brother, who I happen to love in Christ, so I borrowed it, and this is what I was able to glean from it's content, and will now like to share what it provoked in me..

There was some interesting dialogue in this man made production, supposedly based on the words of  Sir Thomas More.

Sir Thomas Moore had a strong faith in God, speaking to his friend on the subject of courage, he mentions that God is love right through.

His friend Howard the Duke of Norfolk, was trying to encourage him to give in to the king's request, pointing out to More that he was a lawyer, the son of a lawyer, and that all such of the influential society had given in to the kings' desires, except More, to which More replied

"I will not give in, not my pride, you are a fool, what do you value?  you will go before your maker ill conditioned and you will think that somewhere back along your pedigree….

He told his daughter that" God made the angels to show him splendor, animals for innocence, plants for simplicity. Man he made to serve him with-in the tangles of his mind"

After a corrupt court hearing he was charged with high treason and put in prison.

 Silence gives consent was his  defense.

A dialog with the 7^th commission to inquire into the case by his majesty council, opened with this statement, 

Sir Thomas More have you anything to say ?

After some dialogue and accusations, Howard the Duke of  Norfolk who was also on this committee asked him to sign a document for fellowship, to which More replied "when we die and you are sent to heaven to do your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine would you come with me for fellowship?

The last time he saw his wife and daughter while in prison, they were trying to convince him to give in to the king's request he tried to explain to them the principles of his conviction,   "God knows the thoughts of the heart" 

When a man takes an oath he is holding his own self in his hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then he needn't hope to find himself again.

At his execution, he was allowed a brief statement and said  "I do no harm, I say no harm, I think no harm, I die God's servant" are you sure of this? he was asked and replied "He will not refuse one who is so good"  "I believe that we hold our future in our hands yours and mine.

When Our lord Jesus returns he would find us in a state of disobedience towards him, on many counts one being not living peacefully with each other, not being one with him, like he is one with the Father, and Jesus did ask the question when I return will I find faith?

I must add that Sir Thomas More was Catholic, but we are the CHOSEN children of God.

 

with much love your sister in Christ

 

It may seem absurd to believe that a "primitive" culture in the Himalaya has anything to teach our industrialized society. But our search for a future that works keeps spiraling back to an ancient connection between ourselves and the earth , an interconnectedness that ancient cultures have never abandoned.

 

by Helen Norberg-Hod

 

There is a candle in your heart, ready   to be kindled

There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel It, don't you?      --Rumi

 

Kitchen privileges Mary Higgins Clark

 

I wonder if any adult-parent or teacher-realizes that young people never forgive or forget being humiliated

 

"Write about what you know"

 Take a dramatic situation, something that sticks in your mind, something that happened to you or to someone you know, maybe some-thing you read in the paper that intrigued you.

Ask yourself two questions, "suppose? and 'What if? and turn that situation into fiction

HIS was advice that I am still following although I've added one more question: why? There has to be a believable motive for the crime.

If there are five people who might have  committed a murder, only one of them would have been vengeful enough, jealous enough ,psychotic enough to go over the line and take a life the compelling opening paragraph the problem, the secondary but related problem the three downward steps, the climax the denouement. "star thinking about writing your short story he warned 3,500 words + Florence Aadland's book  Portrait of a Patriot

 

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