What I Learned from Toothless and HIccup

Tonight, I won tickets to How to Train Your Dragon 2 from America First Credit Union's Facebook page. I only won 4 tickets and had the kids fight to the death for their tickets. OK, OK.... I actually just decided to take the three middle ones because Karleah had just gotten home for girl's camp and Faith was too young to really know the difference.

Carson was HILARIOUS!!

We got a gift card from America First and I got the kids ice cream.

and we can't forget the viking hats:

I actually cried during the movie. I couldn't put my finger on the reasons until I got home and was telling my parents about it. Now, I feel like I have to get it down before I forget the impressions I had. I don't want to ruin the movie if you haven't seen it.... so I will try to be vauge but if you're afraid of a spoiler, stop here.

So, there is your typical good guy/bad guy scene. There is an alpha dragon for each group. The "bad" alpha takes control of all of the dragons, including toothless. Hiccup is lost without his dragon, but somewhere he finds the courage to take on the bad guy.

Faced with the pure evil of the bad alpha dragon,Hiccup uses his own power to remind Toothless of the good inside him. Soon, toothless does the impossible and overcomes the evil that had temporarily overtaken him.

This has many obvious parallels to real life. Often we are faced with pure evil, but with simple reminders from our TRUE leader, and our master we can find the greatness in ourselves and be made whole and good.

I was somehow reminded of the positive place I'm at in life. How perfect my life is, and how everything has fallen in to place. After some of the negativity I faced yesterday (long story.....) it was so peaceful and comforting. Life is good, and God is in charge. I am in a wonderful place, and when I look back things have fallen so perfectly into place. I just wish I was better at being patient waiting for everything to fall into place.... (yeah..... shocker for those that know me best!)