I recently watch Blood diamond couple nights ago and I must say am really impressed with its contents. They should have won for best movie. If u haven't watched it as yet, am gonna advise that u do and stop reading this note cuz I don't wanna spoil it for u. Oh if u can't handle seeing alot of ppl dying don't watch it.
Anyway the movies take place in some where in Sierra Leone, Africa and is basically about diamonds being obtain at any cost, even the cost of life, hence the name "blood diamond". So anyway this guy name Solomon and his family had basically kinda a good life. Ya know wife doing good kids nice n healthy etc. Until one faithful day he and his family were dealt a bad card. On that day rebels attacked his camp, started killing people for fun and then kidnapped him. His family got away. So Solomon was taken away to work in a diamond mine. Rebels financed the purchase of weapons with illicit diamonds extracted from mines they controlled. One day while working in the mine Solomon found a nice pink diamond. Long story short he hid the diamond, son kidnapped by rebel crew and turn into a child soldier, family in refugee camp but at the end he used that diamond to get his family into London and he also end up getting some cash along with that.
I used blood diamond as an analogy to lets say being a christian or life itself. You know ur living ur life hassle free no trials but then out of nowhere ur hit with a disaster and ur whole world is turned upside down. But during that process u hold on and find a diamond, lets say u find that diamond inside of u( strength, courage, hope etc) and on the outside ur rewarded for enduring( lets say school, gotta work hard to get those grades and go through alot of crap while in uni. but hey at the end u get ur degree). See trials come to test how strong we are, they come in a way to "critique" our character.
In the movie Solomon kept fighting and was persistent he was motivated by his family, they were in a sense his source of strength. So question to ask, what is your motivation?? who or what is the source of your strength??
Nothing in life is ever easy and there is always a price to be paid. Are you willing to pay the price??
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