TC Stallings Lead Actor in My Brother’s Keeper

Having to take another’s life would be devasting to me. If faced with someone looking to take my life and I had no other choice, I would do what needed to be done. I’m thankful there are those that can take that on in war and go after an enemy. That does not mean it doesn’t affect them. Add to that the ramifications of seeing those you serve with being killed. PTSD is real. And as we discussed in an earlier podcast with Welby O’Brien, we need to help those suffering from it, whatever the cause. Her book “Love Our Vets” is a good resource.

This movie that TC Stallings stars in, is another. Mostly because it is loosely based on a true story and represents the writers, Ty Manns, Father who came home with PTSD from Vietnam. He made it out and so does TC’s character. This is not wishful thinking.

It can be trite to say only God can make the real difference. But the phrase takes on depth when we talk about what God really does. “This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!” (2 Cor. 5.17New Living Translation) That is impossible without knowing and walking with the Lord. And it may be something we need to experience or return to in our own lives. But as we take on the things that beset us, we realize how true this is. We are no longer slaves to what we use to be. Our call to return to “Egypt” dissipates and we hunger to live in the promise land.

This leads us to the fact that we all have this great privilege and opportunity to pass this on to those suffering from such a debilitating trauma. Satan wants us to stay in that pain. God wants us to have victory over that enemy. “Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Rom. 7.24, 25a New Living Translation)