For Christmas Santa gave Elizabeth a ticket to Disney's Beauty and the Beast the Traveling Broadway Musical. Santa arranged to go with our cousins, aunts and uncle and sister and spend the weekend with them.
Friday I picked Elizabeth up from school and raced to Virginia to beat a storm that was blowing in. I was nervous that it would interfere with the show. On the way we listened to the Broadway Musical Alexander Hamilton. Elizabeth and her cousins are obsessed with this musical and listen to it constantly but I had never listened to the whole thing.
The musical was a fun idea and very creative in its use of words and music. I had to ask my aunt lots of questions to be able to understand exactly what was going on, but now I do know more about our Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
We LOVED Beauty and the Beast. The best part was seeing Elizabeth's jaw dropped through the different scene. When it was over she said, "That is exactly what I want to do, to act in a musical like this and on TV."
While watching the musical I had a "Aha!" moment. When I watch anything or read anything or listen to anything I look for the things they should not have, words, scenes, immodest costumes, innuendos, etc. I want to be aware of them and make sure that I am disappointed in the production because of those items. Because I know it could be done a better way without the need of inappropriate things.
As there were some innuendos and immodest costumes in the musical I realized that I was focusing so much on my disappointment in the inclusion of these items that I was missing the beauty of the musical. Instead of focusing on what is immodest or dwelling on how they should not have put that in I needed to see the whole picture. To realize that the world is involved in what we see and view so it will not be up to my standards but by dwelling on those things I allow them to preoccupy my mind and don't just dismiss them. I am actually making it worse by thinking of these things than by letting them go since I have no control over them. I should not dwell on it. That the dwelling is what Satan wants me to do with that information and instead I need to see it and then dismiss it. It is that idea of being in the world but not of the world.
I will still be guarded in what I watch, read, and listen to but I will not dwell on it. If something is indead wrong I will close the book, turn off the movie, or walk out if I need to but I will not dwell. Instead I will look for the good, see the beauty, and enjoy the moment.
Elizabeth and I had an absolute wonderful time. We loved being with family. My favorite part was on the way home. Elizabeth asked some really good questions and we were able to have a really good open discussion. I felt very blessed to have that time alone with her. She is a wonderful young woman and I am so privileged to be her mother.
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