
These days, I tend to go for simple in everything. So much makes more sense when you take the simple route. It helps to be in nature where, despite the seeming complexities of animate and inanimate objects, one can just take it all at the simplest of levels and let it overwhelm you with its beauty and harmony. On this same level, I find that I do not need much in the way of entertainment. I tend to love that which teaches me things I never knew before or which keeps my soul in a gentle disposition. Anyway, this was leading up to sharing with you another set of movies which are wholesome and encouraging. Simple on one level, but there is much encouragement in the series, which is called “Christy” (1994). It is set in the Great Smokey Mountains of Tennessee and concerns a young girl from the city who goes out into the sticks as a teacher at a mission school in 1912. The whole series is quite thought-provoking amidst all the mountain people who live in abject poverty and ignorance and the hardness of the life there is quite realistic. The children who go to the school are nice little actors whose predicaments are rather moving and there is some comedy too. The script is well-written. They only made one season of six episodes of 45 minutes each with a full-length pilot to start with. This series is a little jewel in the midst of the many movies of madness, violence and filth which are out there. You can find “Christy” on Amazon Prime. Enjoy.

I read many of Catherine Marshall’s books in the late 1970s and 1980s. These books were responsible for a large part of my spiritual growth and continued maturity. They pulled me away from some of my early distorted beliefs, shocking me with the truth. Christy is a story based on her mother life. I inhaled the book! I’ve not seen the series, but I can imagine how wonderful it must be.
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