Understanding Spirituality and Culture through Christ

Lord of the Rings - Attachment vs Trust

March 05, 2020 by Emmanuel R Paulpeter in Musings on Culture & Life, Stories, Movies

When we are stuck in obsessions, trying to find our happiness and rest through some attachment of ours, the way to let go of our obsessions is to to trust in God for our rest and happiness. Life is a journey with God. It is a journey filled with wonder towards freedom. It is our trust in God who fuels this journey of wonder towards freedom.

What Makes for Lonely Angry Men?

May 23, 2016 by Emmanuel R Paulpeter in Movies, Love, Musings on Culture & Life

The opposite of obsessive desires is not to disavow desires, rather it is yielding to rightly ordered desires. Rightly ordered desires starts with loving people close to us, which is exactly what the mythic Sultan, Von Rumple, and the magicians Angier and Borden miss and end up as lonely angry men dead in their spirit.