First Reformed

💙 When you love something more than yourself, you can’t bear to lose it…I’ll obviously relate to this movie more than others, being in ministry myself. Emotional clairvoyance can only be attained through deep relationship with God, but we look for it in (and project it onto) so many other things. I think where this movie succeeds and adds to something like Silence* is that it isn’t assuming - it’s bare, open armed, and yelling at you “I’m not good enough, help me”. Everyone in this movie, except Mary*, is guilty of loving something more than God or themselves. If you loved yourself enough, you would realize your lack can only be fulfilled by God and what he provides: everything needed to sustain and make better this despair that is our world.