The power of tranquility

Alec 2022-01-19 08:01:31

When I was insomnia a few days ago, I finished watching this long-collected movie in half asleep and half awake. It seems that after listening to a gentle poem, the impetuosity and anxiety in the mood are alleviated, and what emerges spontaneously is a belief in life and a sense of peace of mind of returning to home. This may be attributed to the music used in the film, to the photographer's capture of the beautiful scenes of nature and daily life, and to the director's calm, restrained, gentle, subtle and powerful narrative control.

The Vatican should award this film and the director and acting team an outstanding honor award: because it shows the best aspect of faith in God.

Jerusalem should have carved a tear on the stone wall for it: because it portrayed the gods and their respective believers with tolerance and compassion, whether lost or saints.

This is an epic that sings and sings in low voice, because the people it recalls, like the people who sing it, have a compassionate and tender heart. Even if there are weakness, fear, and bloodshed in this story, kindness cannot be concealed. , The existence of trust and love, and the ultimate power of tranquility and compassion.

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  • Christian: [Voice-over] Should it ever befall me, and it could happen today, to be a victim of the terrorism swallowing up all foreigners here, I would like my community, my church, my family, to remember that my life was given to God and to this country. That the Unique Master of all life was no stranger to this brutal departure. And that my death is the same as so many other violent ones, consigned to the apathy of oblivion. I've lived enough to know, I am complicit in the evil that, alas, prevails over the world and the evil that will smite me blindly. I could never desire such a death. I could never feel gladdened that these people I love be accused randomly of my murder. I know the contempt felt for people here, indiscriminately. And I know how Islam is distorted by certain Islamism. This country, and Islam, for me are something different. They're a body and a soul. My death, of course, will quickly vindicate those who call me naïve or idealistic, but they must know that I will be freed of a burning curiosity and, God willing, will immerse my gaze in the Father's and contemplate with him his children of Islam as he sees them. This thank you which encompasses my entire life includes you, of course, friends of yesterday and today, and you too, friend of the last minute, who knew not what you were doing. Yes, to you as well I address this thank you and this farewell which you envisaged. May we meet again, happy thieves in Paradise, if it pleases God the Father of us both. Amen. Insha'Allah.

  • Christian: We are martyrs out of love, out of fidelity. If death overtake us, despite ourselves, because up to the end, up to the end we'll try to avoid it. Our mission here is to be brothers to all. Remember that love is eternal hope. Love endures everything.