To the Wonder
Newborn.
I open my eyes.
I melt.
Into the eternal night.
A spark.
I fall into the flame.
You brought me
out of the shadows.
You lifted me from the ground.
Brought me back to life.
What is she dreaming of?
How calm she is.
In love.
Forever at peace.
We climbed the steps...
To the wonder.
It's coming in.
Love makes us one.
Two...
One.
I in you.
You in me.
Momma?
Why are you unhappy?
I'm not.
I'd never hoped
to love again.
I'll go wherever you go.
Tatiana, look how
cute she is.
You want a little sister like that?
- How old is she?
- Three months.
If I left you because you
didn't want to marry me,
It would mean
I didn't love you.
I don't expect anything.
Just to go a little
of our way together.
Stop being so serious!
You understand?
He's asking if you want to come
and live in the United States.
My sweet love.
At last.
My hope.
How I 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.
Rich.
If you love me...
there's nothing
else I need.
You spoke little.
But you were an incredibly
loving man.
Okay, what are we missing?
There's tons of stuff.
It's super clean.
Everything is
beautiful here.
Look how clean everything is.
She has pretty hair.
Pretty hands.
You guys might
get rich together.
She can even make drinks.
It'll be great.
You'll be my stepdad.
What's going on here?
We're doing
Remedial work?
We're looking to make sure
there's no toxins.
I got stuff on my house.
Kids acting strange.
Sometimes we see...
like tar
coming out in the cracks
in the patio.
The neighbors here, they
They 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...
What is this love
that loves us?
That comes from nowhere.
From all around.
The sky.
You, cloud.
You love me, too.
I've had it blonde and
brown and pink and red.
unless my mom says I can.
My mom doesn't care.
My mom's pretty cool.
After school you took her
to swim.
Taught her the names
of the wildflowers.
You called her
your daughter.
I'm writing my thoughts.
You love me?
Of course.
I don't have any friends.
In Paris I had lots.
We need to leave.
Both of us.
There's something missing.
There is a love...
that is like a stream
that goes dry
when rain
But there is a love...
that is like a spring
coming up from the earth.
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.
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.
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
I'd never give her up.
Ever.
Everywhere you're present.
And still I can't see you.
You're within me.
Around me.
And I have
no experience of you.
Not as I once did.
Why don't I hold on
to what I've found?
My heart is cold.
Hard.
I write on water...
What I dare not say.
I try to cradle you.
To make you contain yourself.
An avalanche of tenderness.
The world so far away.
A ghost.
Ashes.
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?
Look at me.
I'm not looking at you.
I don't want
to look at you.
You're not my father.
You think you're my father.
You're not.
Tatiana...
You're annoying me.
Father, 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.
Just, "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.
And we really
need more room
For the community
to get together.
We have plays,
we have dinners,
We have parties.
We have C.C.D.
in the parish hall.
We have weddings,
we have parties.
How long will you
hide yourself?
If I would have known
it was there...
Let me come to you.
Let me not pretend.
Everything that's happening...
Pretend to feelings
I don't have.
The Prophet Hosea 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
is avoiding the choice.
To choose is
to commit yourself,
and to commit yourself
is to run the risk--
Is 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.
My visa has expired.
We need to face the facts.
If you'd asked me to stay,
I would have.
You thought we had forever.
That time didn't exist.
These guys live around here,
I mean,
They're perfectly happy
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,
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
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