{"product_id":"the-way-of-the-lord","title":"The Way Of The Lord","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"border border-gray-200 rounded-lg overflow-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"px-4 py-3 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed talking-points-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"m-4 bg-white border border-gray-200 rounded-lg shadow-sm\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"px-6 py-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"space-y-2\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border border-gray-200 rounded-lg overflow-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"px-4 py-3 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed talking-points-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"border border-gray-200 rounded-lg overflow-hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"px-4 py-3 text-gray-700 leading-relaxed talking-points-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the film\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Tree of Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(directed by Terrence Malick, Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2011), the opening voiceover monologue speaks of two different ways to live, similar to the two different paths of life presented in Psalm 1: “The nuns taught us there are two ways through life: the way of nature and the way of grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it, too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy when all the world is shining around it, when love is smiling through all things. They taught us that no one who loves the way of grace ever comes to a bad end. I will be true to you. Whatever comes.” In this voiceover, the speaker interprets “wickedness” as the “way of nature,” the result of serving the self rather than seeking the way of grace, the way of the Lord. Only when seeking the way of grace can one see the beauty of a world in which “love is smiling through all things.” The “tree of life” in the title refers to the tree in the garden of Eden that represents eternal life. In Psalm 1, those who do not follow the way of the Lord will “perish” rather than grow and blossom as a tree (v. 6).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ministry Pass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68069592531260,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0852\/9874\/1564\/files\/johann-siemens-EPy0gBJzzZU-unsplash.jpg?v=1793654068","url":"https:\/\/app.ministrypass.com\/products\/the-way-of-the-lord","provider":"Ministry Pass","version":"1.0","type":"link"}