I’ve been crying a lot today.  And that’s a good thing.

Betsy and I watched Amazing Grace, the movie that came out last year that tells the story of Wilberforce’s efforts to abolish the slave trade in England.  It also secondarily tells the story of John Newton, the former slave trader who wrote the incredibly popular hymn Amazing Grace.  Some of my film reviewer friends have commented that the film is a little too clean and sentimental.  Maybe so.  But I was absolutely devastated by the story of one man’s commitment to righting a horrible wrong.

I want be Wilberforce.  I want to have this sort of devotion to a cause.  I want my life to count for something.

I can’t recommend this film enough.  Be sure and watch the “making of” that comes on the DVD.