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‎Symbols and Metaphors

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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====

====Baptism & New Life====

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 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), Rona's young adulthood in London (where her alcoholism sends her life and her relationships into a downward spiral), and Rona's 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====
+====Out Running====
-*Corncrake: only 30% succeed in migrating.
+The title of the film and the book it's based on--The Outrun--is a Scottish farming term that refers to an outlying and unusable piece of land. It's far away from the farm, so you'd have to "run out" to get to it. But in the film, Rona is also trying to "outrun" her alcoholism--it chases her to ever more remote places, while she tries to staying a few paces ahead of it.
-*Seals and Selkies: drowned women.
-*Harsh and brutal realities of alcoholism, harsh and brutal realities of Orkney
+There are countless bible verses about running--in his letter to the Corinthians, Paul compares Christians to athletes running a race.  The prophet Elijah miraculously outruns the chariots of the king, and the Book of Isaiah says that those who trust in the Lord will run and not grow weary.
-*Loneliness of Alcoholism, loneliness of Orkneys
 ====A Mother's Prayers====
-*augustine quote.
+Early in the film, we learn that Rona's mother is devoutly religious.  She hosts young women at her house for Bible studies, and she prays for Rona--who is resistant to the idea, and to religion in general.
-====Out Running====
+*Film Clip - Prayer
-*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
+In the 4th century, Saint Augustine wrote in his spiritual autobiography (Confessions) about how his mother's constant prayer for him was instrumental to his salvation.  Augustine--an atheist at the time--was on a downward spiral, and nothing his mother could do, no argument, no intervention had any effect.  Her pastor counseled her to simply leave him alone, but to pray for him--telling her that "it is impossible that the son of so many tears should perish."  When Augustine finally converted to his mother's faith, he became one of the greatest theologians and leaders in church history.
-*be still and know that i am god
-====Baptism & New Life====
+And that's important for us to remember, too.  If we want to grow, we have to do the hard work, each of us, individually before God.  But we cannot and should not do it alone.  We were made to support each other in loving and compassionate community. And the compassion of the church, when it is fueled by the love of God, is one of the few things in this world that nobody can outrun.

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 ====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.
+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), Rona's young adulthood in London (where her alcoholism sends her life and her relationships into a downward spiral), and Rona's 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====

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 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.
-====Symbols and Metaphors====
+====Signs and Wonders====
 *Corncrake: only 30% succeed in migrating.
 *Seals and Selkies: drowned women.