Throne Room Moments: Musings of an Imperfect Princess

"Dear Jesus,  please help me to sleep well  and have good dreams and good thoughts,  not bad dreams and bad thoughts In Jesus' name,  Amen." -Parker Family Fear Prayer "God is bigger than the Boogie Man.  He's bigger than Godzilla or the monsters on TV.  Oh God is bigger than the Boogie Man  and He's watchin' out for you and me." -VeggieTales So growing up in the Parker household we had/have (still use it with Littlest Brother) this thing called the Fear Prayer. My parents started it one night when I couldn't get to sleep because of a bad dream. I don't remember now what it was that scared me so badly. I was a creative kid with a highly active imagination....it could have been any number of things. Anyway, this particular night I couldn't get to sleep, the "monsters" were really bothering me. So after coming into my room and re-assuring me that it was alright, nothing was going to hurt me, that it ...

Hermione Granger: "Stop moving! I know what this is — it's Devil's Snare!" Ronald Weasley: "Oh, I'm so glad we know what it's called, that's a great help." Hermione Granger: "Shut up, I'm trying to remember how to kill it!" Harry Potter: "Well, hurry up, I can't breathe!" — Hermione Granger, Harry Potter, and Ronald Weasley struggle with Devil's Snare In the last post I used an example from The Hunger Games, and while it is one of my favorite series, Harry Potter  is my ALL TIME favorite. I was watching the first movie over the weekend (for the millionth time) and there is a scene when the main three Harry, Ron, and Hermione become trapped in a vine like plant called Devil's Snare. In the story, the Devil's Snare was a plant that would seem benign and harmless until you fell into it. Once contact was made the plant would then wrap its tentacle-like vines around its prey and essentially squeeze ...