pieces and ponderings

Last summer, on a warm July afternoon, my husband and I went to a matinee with children, numbers 2– 5, to see the movie, “DespicableMe.”  I’ve watched it several times since.  It tells the story of Gru, a villain, who wants to commit the crime of the century…stealing the moon.  To achieve this dastardly dead, he adopts three orphans to help him acquire a shrink ray…which is totally necessary if you want to steal the moon, because you need to shrink it first.

So here’s why I love this movie:

1. It has unicorns in it.  Well, it has a stuffed, toy unicorn that belongs to the youngest orphan.  She loves her toy unicorn, which gets destroyed, but then is replaced…and she sings about unicorns.
2. I love the unicorn song…a simple song…one that will get stuck in your head.  It always makes me smile…we sing it a lot in our house.  “Unicorns I love them, unicorns I love them….”
3. The rest of the music is cool too…yes, I have the soundtrack.
4. There’s a great bedtime story at the end.
5. There’s a huge heart change in Gru when he allows himself to love the three orphans.
6. It has minions…cute minions, not mean, evil minions.  They are yellow and wear little overalls and speak unintelligible gibberish, but it’s cute gibberish…and they are funny.  I’m assuming that Gru somehow created these little minions…they work for him.
7. (And this is one of the biggest reasons I love this movie) Gru, the creator of the minions, calls them each by name…always…throughout the whole movie.  These minions all look alike…well, there’s the one-eyed variety and the two-eyed variety, but other than that they look alike.  Even though they look alike, their maker knows them by name.  I LOVE that part!!  Gru seems to have a relationship with each one of his minions!

That reminds me of my Heavenly Father and that’s why I’m thinking about “Despicable Me” early in the morning. I read a verse in my Bible today, in John 16  (verse 27) that tells me that God the Father loves me, which reminded me that He knows my name…I’m that important to Him.  I have to be reminded of that a lot…that I’m important to Him…and it seems that God uses some creative ways to do just that…even high-definition, animated cartoons on a big screen…or a little screen, whichever the case may be.