Family Movie Night

We have started doing something on Sunday nights that has been a lot of fun at our house: Family Movie Night.  We make a pizza, grab a spot in front of the television, and watch a Disney movie together as a family.  We don’t eat in the living room very often (most meals are around the table), so to have this fun time together has been a real treat.  We don’t do these every weekend, but Sunday’s are a busy day for our family and by the end of it, sometimes it’s the perfect ending to a busy but exciting day.

 

I think that part of the reason that I enjoy this so much is because we used to do this when I was a kid.  Every Sunday our family would do the same thing: make a pizza and watch a movie.  There is just something about connecting with your childhood this way.  I think that’s why I like going to Walt Disney World so much, it’s something I did as a kid that I now get to do with my own kids.  Watching my daughter experience the things that I loved as a kid makes me feel like a kid again.  Often as adults we become so over-intellectual that we lose sight of the things that we loved as kids.

Jesus said that the only way to really connect with Him was through childlike faith.  Now, I’m all for systematic theology, apologetics, and proper exegesis (I just used a bunch of big smart sounding words to say I like thinking about my faith), but there is something about a child’s relationship with Jesus.  She doesn’t ponder the mysteries of the universe or struggle with the problem of evil, she just knows that Jesus loves her and she loves Him too.  There are certainly times for intellectual discussion of the Scriptures, but as I am in the middle of my final semester of seminary and am readying books that approach the Bible in a way that greatly resembles marching through mud, it’s nice to remember a time when all I knew was that Jesus loved me and that I loved Him too.  And sometimes I get the feeling that as an adult, that’s still all I need.