I watched this movie called “Little Secrets” for kids recently that inspired this post:
An aspiring 14-year-old concert violinist named Emily spends her summer practicing for an audition to get into a prestigious Youth Orchestra. She also runs a secret-keeping business, in which other children give her fifty cents to tell her a secret, which she promises to keep; this is a talent that she is very good at. Every afternoon a long queue of little ones wait to share their secrets with her and be counseled at times. What no one knows is that the secret keeper has a tragic secret of her own!
Meanwhile, new neighbors move in next door, including Phillip. During the move, he accidentally breaks a valued chess piece and is caught by Emily as he attempts to bury it in the front garden. Phillip pays Emily fifty cents to keep his deed a secret, and to hide the piece in her treasure trunk along with other broken property from her other clients, in paper bags labeled with their names.
Things take a turn for the worse when Emily who never tells a secret, confides in Philip who urges her to tell him a secret of her own. She soon ends up telling a secret that her friends share and is very depressed about breaking her code.
To comfort her, her Violin tutor tells her a painful secret of her own and helps her understand that you can never be close to the people you love as long as you hide things from them.
As she listens to her, Emily who loves to sit on the rooftop and play her violin tumbles and falls. She is rushed to the hospital and slowly gets better surrounded by family and friends.
Teary eyed, she finally finds the courage to confide in her friends for the first time and tells them about her own deep secret. Her parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was just a few months old and her life was miraculously spared. She was then adopted by her mum and dad.
After Emily is released from the hospital, her life is turned around. She and Phillip return all of the paper bags and money to her clients and encourage them to tell their secrets even if was hard, painful or fearful.
Emily learns not to hide her own secret but is overjoyed to find a strange freedom that comes from both being honest and being loved for who you really are.
Hmmm… it’s a movie that leaves you touched and thoughtful.
As I journeyed with Emily through the ups and downs of her life, I learnt that it’s not easy to share secrets with anyone and sometimes perhaps more so with people close to our heart for fear of rejection. But Freedom, intimacy and love spring from a heart that is not hidden but honest.
Dear Mister God, this is @ina talking . . . I know I am not always honest with you. I wonder what keeps me from being honest. Strengthen me so I will learn to always have an honest heart before you.
An aspiring 14-year-old concert violinist named Emily spends her summer practicing for an audition to get into a prestigious Youth Orchestra. She also runs a secret-keeping business, in which other children give her fifty cents to tell her a secret, which she promises to keep; this is a talent that she is very good at. Every afternoon a long queue of little ones wait to share their secrets with her and be counseled at times. What no one knows is that the secret keeper has a tragic secret of her own!
Meanwhile, new neighbors move in next door, including Phillip. During the move, he accidentally breaks a valued chess piece and is caught by Emily as he attempts to bury it in the front garden. Phillip pays Emily fifty cents to keep his deed a secret, and to hide the piece in her treasure trunk along with other broken property from her other clients, in paper bags labeled with their names.
Things take a turn for the worse when Emily who never tells a secret, confides in Philip who urges her to tell him a secret of her own. She soon ends up telling a secret that her friends share and is very depressed about breaking her code.
To comfort her, her Violin tutor tells her a painful secret of her own and helps her understand that you can never be close to the people you love as long as you hide things from them.
As she listens to her, Emily who loves to sit on the rooftop and play her violin tumbles and falls. She is rushed to the hospital and slowly gets better surrounded by family and friends.
Teary eyed, she finally finds the courage to confide in her friends for the first time and tells them about her own deep secret. Her parents were killed by a drunk driver when she was just a few months old and her life was miraculously spared. She was then adopted by her mum and dad.
After Emily is released from the hospital, her life is turned around. She and Phillip return all of the paper bags and money to her clients and encourage them to tell their secrets even if was hard, painful or fearful.
Emily learns not to hide her own secret but is overjoyed to find a strange freedom that comes from both being honest and being loved for who you really are.
Hmmm… it’s a movie that leaves you touched and thoughtful.
As I journeyed with Emily through the ups and downs of her life, I learnt that it’s not easy to share secrets with anyone and sometimes perhaps more so with people close to our heart for fear of rejection. But Freedom, intimacy and love spring from a heart that is not hidden but honest.
Dear Mister God, this is @ina talking . . . I know I am not always honest with you. I wonder what keeps me from being honest. Strengthen me so I will learn to always have an honest heart before you.
4 comments:
Hi Ani,
"Freedom, intimacy and love spring from a heart that is not hidden but honest".. this is absolutely true. I have seen people who is so open, are more free and comfortable with others rather than closed people. But there is a verse in the proverb that says don't let your secret or personal thing ( not sure about the word) to your friend or somebody that he may look down upon u. what do you say, do we have to hide or reveal.
Hi Denny!
Thats an interesting point to bring up...
hmmm... I do agree with that proverb, because it cautions us to use wisdom while being transparent to people since being honest makes us extremely vulnerable.
What do we hide or reveal?
I struggle with that question myself at times and I dont think it has a clear cut answer.
But hope this helps...
I believe that will be determined by the nature and the depth of a relationship. Plus when being honest we must expect to be hurt....thats a risk we need to be willing to take if we would like people to accept us for who we are. I guess thats why it's hard to be honest most of the time.
So it's wise to be cautious and slow to reveal oneself to another yet it's good to be open.
:) Tricky eh?
Hi Anita,
That was a good answer, indeed God Expecting us to be truthfull,but u and i fear for what others will think about us if the truth is disclosed. Look from the other side , let us not look down on the other people, even they are worst sinner, encourage them to come in to new life, as how u and i have come. i think i make sense. In nutshell, LET US lOVE EACH OTHER.
Well, Just happend to check the comments..
They are good..!! Just to add on..!! Whoever it is a sinner or not, a friend or an enemy, after all as he is also an human :) So "Love everyone like thy self"
And, about bieng honest and frank...Well, that natural human tendancy to look down upon some one who as commited a mistake..But just a minute of thought...Does he/she not worth a special respect because he/she reveals even his/her worst side? Also, one reason why humans express thier sad feelings or any kind of feelings is to get help from people...when they are absolutely helpless...Does it not sound odd on denying help or ignoring some one when they come to us for help... :)
So, soooo...there are so many if's and but's in life which cannot be answered in compile time...but can only be decided in run time...Run it...If you get an exception..Fix it..Else keep going :) What matters at the end is keep patching your code always ;)
Ani, Don't raise your eye brows on seeing the last paragraph ;)
Post a Comment