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Romans 7:21-25 (NT p.157)

21 So I find it to be a law that, when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand. 22 For I delight in the law of God in my inmost self, 23 but I see in my members another law at war with the law of my mind, making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. 24 Wretched person that I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh I am enslaved to the law of sin.

Faith & Film XIII: The Outrun

• Film Clip #1 - Trailer

Three Minute Film Summary

The Outrun is based on the real-life memoirs of writer and biologist Amy Liptrot, and her struggles to overcome alcoholism. The film's central character is a young woman named Rona (a fictionalized version of Liptrot), who grew up in the Orkney Islands off the northern coast of Scotland. The film jumps back and forth in time between Rona's childhood in the Orkneys (where she and her mother struggle with her father's manic depression), her young adulthood in London (where her alcoholism sends her life and her relationships into a downward spiral), and her present life back in the Orkneys, after a stint in rehab, where she reconnects with her culture, her love of nature and the remote island landscapes, and as she continues her daily struggle to remain sober.

Signs and Wonders

• Corncrake: only 30% succeed in migrating.
• Seals and Selkies: drowned women.
• Harsh and brutal realities of alcoholism, harsh and brutal realities of Orkney
• Loneliness of Alcoholism, loneliness of Orkneys

A Mother's Prayers

• augustine quote.

Out Running

• lots of bible verses about running - elijah outruns king ahab's chariot, Isaiah, run and not grow weary
• frantic music beats contrasted with island sounds
• be still and know that i am god

Baptism & New Life