June 6, 2007

• Yesterday I watched the movie “Antwone Fisher” with a couple of my high schoolers.  I hadn’t seen it before and didn’t know its plot but I had heard it was good and Denzel Washington is one of my kid’s favorite actors (after watching Man on Fire and Inside Man) so we picked it.  Turned out the movie was a true story about a navy guy who gets counseling and confesses his past as being orphaned young, being raised in a foster home, receiving physical, mental, and even sexual abuse as he grew up, and at the end meeting his mom for the first time in his life (she had him in prison and he was put in the orphanage as a baby, not knowing she was still alive growing up).  It was weird watching such a movie with my kids.  My kids watching it thankfully don’t have that extreme type of past (all the abuse), but some other kids here do.  The loneliness/questions of orphaned kids is the same for them all.  But my kids take such movies in stride.  I remember showing my 3rd – 5th graders the movie “Lemony Snicket” where some kids in the movie are orphaned.  I remember as the story unfolded a couple of my kids said, “Hey, they’re just like us!”  The movie Antwone Fisher (a good movie, though a couple parts were hard to watch) was actually written by the real Antwone Fisher.  Its powerful that he had been able to overcome enough in his life to share such a rough story with the world.  I pray the same for my kids.  Hopefully we’ll have a bunch of tear-jerking/stories of victory based on the kids of Geon Christian Children’s Home. 

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