The Inheritance

As I was down sick with the flu this past week, I found quite a bit of time on my hands. I took this time not to read because the vision was a little fuzzy....but, to watch movies. I always have my few favorites that my family seems to only tolerate when I am sick. So I had my son pull out my favorite movie, "The Inheritance". "The Inheritance" was written by Louisa May Alcott, the authoress of "Little Women". It is set in mid 1800s England and the main character, Edith, is my idea of a "Christian" woman. She is quite intelligent in a well-rounded manner. Her manners are flawless and she shines forth beauty from the inside as well as her outer appearance. At the end of the movie, they give subtitles as to the other characters and what became of them, so I thought this story might be based on some historical fact, but I cannot determine that that was the case. I did, however, find that a lot of people view this as a very light-hearted movie, in other words something not so very deep. I find myself in a completely opposite position. I think this movie speaks highly of what and who we are to be as Christians. The restrictions that were set on people simply because of bloodlines, who they knew, who they didn't know, I find very relevant because I find it very hypocritical. And in all of this, our heroine, Edith, who recieves blessings upon blessings after enduring hardship upon hardship, but never letting the adverse circumstances causing her to become anything less than who she already is....Although this movie is not Christian, I find it be very challenging to run the race as Paul encourages us to do. I always come away from it feeling happy but encouraged to keep on keeping on standing in Christ, trying to follow the Lord as best I know how by His leading and that I have a whole lot to work on in trying to become more of a 'lady'.