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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
One Night with the King
We went to see "One Night with the King" a week or so ago... It was so good! It could have been better..... but it is definately worth seeing! It's coming out on DVD on Jan 23... right in time for my birthday!! The Website is http://www.8x.com/onenight/
If you want the synopsis:
One Night With the King is an epic motion picture set in an ancient and exotic world of adventure, intrigue and romance, that follows a young Jewish orphan who rises from peasant to Queen of Persia only to face the annihilation of her people. At the height of ancient Persia, lovely Hadassah grows up in Susa, capitol of the empire, sheltered under the watchful eye of her Uncle Mordecai, a scribe in the royal palace. Unbeknownst to Hadassah and Mordecai, Haman the Agagite, descendant of the Jews mortal enemy and the man responsible for the slaughter of her parents, capitalizes on a palace culture beset by treachery and intrigue, setting in motion a series of events that will bring about a centuries old blood quest to destroy the Jews. Using the ruthless plotting of the princes to his advantage, Haman baits them into trapping King Xerxes into banishing the Queen for her stance against a looming war with Greece.With the King left alone and desperate to live up to and avenge the battles of his father, the princes press upon Xerxes that a king soon to depart for war must leave behind a queen to keep the people unified. Thus word is sent out and every young maiden through out the empire, including Hadassah, is rounded up and taken into the palace for a season of preparation before being presented before the King.Warned by Mordecai to keep her Jewish identity a secret, Hadassah changes her name to Esther and adapts quickly to life as a Queen’s candidate. While the rest of the harem plot and scheme over the potential riches that lay before them, Esther wins favor by seeking not what she can gain, but what stirs the passions of the King himself.Like a fairy tale come true, Esther’s intelligence and wonder capture the heart of the King like no woman ever has. But becoming Queen is nothing like she dreamed. She quickly finds herself in a dangerous world of politics when a plot is discovered to poison the king. This is only the beginning, however, for just as Esther has risen to favor and honor, so too has Haman, who through a series of Machiavellian double crosses, has maneuvered himself into the powerful position of being named Prince. Now with the war against Greece in jeopardy due to a shortage of funding, Haman launches his ultimate plan, convincing the King that the necessary funding can be raised by the slaughter of the Jews and the confiscation of their wealth and property.Meanwhile, Esther discovers that Haman was indeed the one who killed her parents, but finds herself helpless to do anything to stop him. Her own relationship with the ever-more-paranoid Xerxes has crumbled to pieces due to her inability to disclose the secret of her background and she is dangerously close to seeing the former Queen’s fate befall herself. With time running out, and Haman himself becoming more suspicious of her secret, Mordecai informs Esther that the Jews only hope is for her to risk her life and go before the King unsummoned (a crime punishable by death) to intercede for her people. It is then that Esther utters those fateful words that have rung through out the centuries, “If I perish, I perish,” as she races off with one last chance to save her people.
Saturday, October 14, 2006
I've been tagged
I've been tagged by Jessica . Here goes! :)
Five Things in my Freezer:
1. Meat, a ton of meat
2. More frozen vegetables than all our neighbors combined
3. Daniel's frozen lemon water stuff
4. Blueberries
5. More meat
Five Things in my Car:
1. A million rubber bands (Daniel got a rubberband gun last Christmas)
2. About 20 unmatching socks
3. An assortment of my little brothers' weapons
4. A spare rod and reel (John is always prepared to go fishing)
5. About 10 empty waterbottles
Five Things in my Closet:
1. My guitar
2. My secret candy stash
3. A water fountain (it's a pretty big closet)
4. more hangers than you'd find in walmart
5. about 5 sleeping bags out of their bags (no, they are NOT all mine)
Five Things in my Purse: (since I don't have a purse, I'm going to change this to a backpack)
1. My sketch book
2. Last year's nerds (which had spilled everywhere)
3. Cards
4. GUM GUM GUM
5. A book
5 people I inflict this tag upon:
1.Susannah Brister
2.Nathaniel W.
3. Jonathan B.
4.Christie
5.Missy
If you don’t have a blog then just leave it as a comment. :)
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Worldview Pics
Here's the Worldview Pics I promised!!! I miss all ya'll! Can't wait til next year! ~Miss Brooke Boriack
Sunday, October 08, 2006
John
Hey everybody!! Thanks for praying!! I'm finally home, and happy to be so! Sorry for the terrible grammer/spelling on the last post... I was in a hurry :)
In case you didn't get or have incomplete info., our family had gone on a camping trip to our deer lease in Bandera just west of San Antonio. We were at the back of the 1800 acres in the Hill Country where only jeeps can traverse. We had hiked up a large hill and around and down and were walking along a dry creek bed. John decided to traverse the hill and go up above us on the edge of the cliff. This was what he always does and I've seen him do this many times. As we edged around the curve of the creek, dad noticed that there was alot of loose dirt where John was about 30' above us and rec'd he come down. He realized the same thing at about the same time and was trying to get to a place where he could get back down when the dirt gave way underneath him. We looked up when we heard him yell to us to watch out. He "rode" the dirt down, but then at around 15 - 20' or so his foot caught on a bush and flipped him onto his back and he landed flat on his back (on rocks) right in front of us. I've never been so scared in my life! It knocked the breath out of him which was really scary for him and it took him about 45 seconds to breath again (and it wasn't a comfortable breath... he was gasping all the time) . He was in a TON of pain. He lost all his short term memory, but thankfully never lost consciousness. My dad went back and drove the 20" trip to the front gate to meet the EMS. . After 45" they came with the back board. They got him to a clearing where the Life Flight helicoptor could land and they took him off. The rest of us all piled in our car and drove the hour trip to the hospital in SA.
It was a tough 3 days in ICU with 30 hrs of pain, 18 of which were excrutiating (and I mean excrutiating! He's going to be so mentally strong after this!). It was hard on Mom and Dad too. The nurses and doctors were wonderful all the time. (The kids left on Sunday with the Ricks.) John was able to come home Wed. night...(in the McMinn's RV) while I was still at Worldview camp. (I had left with the McMinn's on Sunday and came home Friday night). We have some awesome friends! Thanks guys! (P.S. we've figured we got about 2000 people praying! From Alaska, to Minnasota, to Montana, to New Mexico, all across Texas and so forth!)
Anyway, he has 12 fractured bones in his back, 4 involving the body of the vertebrae and 8 involving the transverse processes ( the lateral "wings"). I have no idea what any of that means, that's just what mom said... but I do know that THERE IS NO SPINAL CORD DAMAGE!! He has a laceration on the back of his head but his neck and head are not damaged. Praise the Lord! He is now in a rented hospital bed (not a shock, knowing my mom :) in our office, and can only get up when we put on his back brace.. which is uncomfortable so he usually doesn't wear it for more than 30-45" or so. Our office is stuffed with cards and gifts and visitors etc. that make it so much nicer. Thank ya'll again for praying! If ya'll live close, come see him sometime!
Brooke
