How to Train your Dragon

Last night me and my wife went and see a movie. "How to Train your Dragon", an animation. It tells the story of a viking boy with the strange name of "Hiccup". His little village is plagued by dragons that come by night and steal livestock. With his father as chief much in the village centre around fighting and killing dragons. It has become the measure of success for both men and women-the ability to sleigh dragons.

Poor Hiccup lives with the tension of knowing in his heart that he is not a dragon slayer and probably never will be. By twist of fate he manage to catch a dragon in a net which injures this dragon in a way that prevents him form flying. This happens to be the most feared dragon, the so called "Night Fury". Unfortunately nobody saw Hiccup shooting the net and catching this dragon and of course nobody believes Hiccup when he tells them. He therefore go look for the dragon all by himself, finds it but when he looks in the helpless dragon's eyes, he is unable to kill him. Instead he frees the dragon and later on helps it to repair it's broken wing and to fly again. A deep friendship develop. Hiccup learn a lot about dragons and comes to know them as friendly creatures with which his people can collaborate with. He also learns that the only reason they steal livestock from his village, is that they all live in fear of a very big monster dragon that needs to be fed regularly. When this friendship becomes known in the village Hiccup has to endure his father and the village's scorn and disappointment.

In the end, through Hiccups interventions the village and dragons collaborate to defeat the big monster dragon. And although Hiccup loses a leg in this epic battle all lived happily ever after. Even his father is proud of him and realises that his son's way was exactly the approach the situation called for.

This was a entertaining and good movie. And although it is no Oscar candidate to me the message I got from this movie was nothing short of a voice from God guiding me at a time when I very much needed guidance. In my next post I will explain why...