Lord Of The Rings

Yesterday Noah found Mary Jo's missing diamond ring!!! It has been lost for several months and we looked everywhere in our bedroom for it. This was the third time Mary Jo's ring has disappeared and the other two times we had to buy replacements. But last night, Noah decided he would give it one more try. He told us later that he prayed and asked the Lord to show him where it was...

Is it just me or did the episode on Lost in the first season where Kate and Sawyer found the briefcase seem a lot like the scene in the Lord of the Rings when the ring was found by Smealgol's friend? The fight for it afterward, the strange power of the item to corrupt, its shininess in the water, the strangeness of it being located...

By the way, that same episode had a crazy scene that was mighty provacative. The conversation between Rose and Charlie sent chills down my spine. I haven't seen in a nonChristian forum quite as open an assertion of Christ's power to rescue the broken life as that scene portrayed...

The Lord of the Rings is really a vehicle of Tolkien for explaining the power sin has over us and the strength of temptation as well as its final destruction. He gets it right when he shows Frodo fiddling with the ring when he knows he should have nothing to do with it. Finally with demon kings surrounding him, Frodo puts it on thinking the ring will save him. But all it does is expose Frodo to the attack of the demons and they mortally wound him. Although Frodo is healed by Aragorn (the promised king), he bears the scar and the pain it carries the rest of his life. Temptation is nearly always a very bright and sensible solution but its filth is hidden. When we quietly slip on the ring, we become as vulnerable as Frodo; sliced and bearing the pain sometimes our entire life.

Back to the show Lost. Every character in it so far before he or she comes to the island seems "lost". I am not sure if the title refers to the before or after state of their lives. By the way, is Rose an intentional reference to Touched by an Angel...for me she is its brightest star...I do like Jack a lot though!

Enough random thoughts...it sure was good to find the ring...lost...found...I do not know if the ring was all that was found last night. I think Noah found his way too!