To the Wonder

My sweet love.

At last.

My hope.

How l loved you.

so how long have you been here?

A couple of months.

How do you like it so far?

I like it.

- Do you have any children? - I have a daughter.

She's 10.

I bet it's hard

being a single mom. I know my daughter's a little younger

but it would be fun for them to get together, maybe.

It's kind of a hard age to move away from someplace.

Honest.

what's going on here?

We're doing a little remedial work.

Remedial work?

We're looking to make sure there's no toxins.

I got stuff on my house.

Kids acting strange.

Sometimes we see tar

Coming out in the cracks in the patio.

The neighbors here. they had their house in escrow.

They pulled out.

The buyers pulled out.

Yeah.

That's too bad.

The reports from the lab came in.

It showed the presence of lead and cadmium

In the surface soil and in the dust

In the schoolyards...

I've had it blonde and brown and pink

and red.

Me, I could never dye my hair unless my mum says I can.

My mum doesn't care.

My mom's pretty cool.

of course.

there is a love...

...That is like a stream that goes dry

When rain no longer feeds it.

But there is a love...

...That is like a spring coming up from the earth.

The first is human love. the second is divine love

And has its source above.

The husband is to love his wife

As Christ loved the church.

And give his life for her.

He does not find her lovely -- he makes her lovely.

But there is a grace that comes in such a marriage.

I got married when I was 17.

And I had a child.

But my husband

Started running after other women.

And he left us

And went to Canary Islands.

And other priests have told me that

In the eyes of the church I'm still married to that man.

They said I couldn't have the sacraments.

I want to be a wife.

I don't even know why I was with him in the first place.

Then it sunk in.

I didn't really want to tell my dad

Because I knew he would start yelling.

I'd never give her up.

Ever.

You see that red band in the sky right there?

And you see that blue down below it?

That's the earth's shadow on the atmosphere.

Look. You see what I'm talking about?

Stop for a second.

You see?

Tatiana...

ather, I'm going to pray for you.

Thank you very much.

So you will receive the gift of joy.

Me?

Because you're so unhappy.

'cause you don't come out too much.

Do you get lonely all the time. or most of the time

When ain't nobody around?

So what you got to say about it?

You gotta have a little more excitement.

Just like when me and you are around, and there ain't nobody around.

"Hey!"

The power hits you, brother. It always hits me.

You can just say, "hey, power," and it hits me.

Hits me before I can get it out.

see, the devil don't know what I'm saying.

And you won't know and I won't know.

I can feel the warmth of the light, brother.

That's spiritual.

I'm feeling more than just natural light.

Feeling the spiritual light, see?

I can almost touch that light. coming right from the sky.

The parish has grown a lot.

And we really need more room

For the community to get together.

We have plays. we have dinners.

We have parties.

We have CCD. In the parish hall.

we have parties.

if I would have known it was there...

everything that's happening...

man is in revolt against god.

The prophet husea saw

In the breakdown of his marriage

The spiritual infidelity of his people.

In that broken marriage. we see the pattern of our world.

We wish to live inside the safety of the laws.

We fear to choose.

Jesus

Insists on choice.

The one thing he condemns utterly

ls avoiding the choice.

To choose is to commit yourself.

And to commit yourself is to run the risk--

ls to run the risk of failure.

The risk of sin. the risk of betrayal.

But Jesus can deal with all of those.

Forgiveness he never denies us.

The man who makes a mistake

Can repent.

But the man who hesitates.

Who does nothing.

Who buries his talent

In the earth...

With him. he can do nothing.

these guys live around here. I mean.

They're perfectly happy until somebody comes around

Asking questions. And it makes everybody nervous...

Ain't this is our property? Can't we do what we want to do with it?

I tell my husband to get us out of here. but where we gonna go?

They got all these lawyers. these big time lawyers.

And we can't get no help.

Even the dog is acting funny.

We've been on this house for a long time.

you're out at the ranch up there?

I've been there for some time.

Some of these creeks and rivers--

You talk to my sister, right?

I'm going over to the...

The tall grass prairie now.

The ranch is going into receivership.

it's going bankrupt.

Nu, he claimed he didn't want to have kids

While he was in school.

She hadn't changed.

So many student loans. gambling debts

And this ranch that's falling apart.

I caught you on the right day then.

Kind.

I had a child...

A little girl.

She died.

My father.

He said to read romans.

"All things work together for good."

He believed that.

Will you pray with me?