The Walking Dead

If anyone reading this has not checked out this show yet, I would recommend at least watching the first episode. Being on the edge of your seat from the first minute, the thrill that comes with it, the suspense of what may or may not be happening, it's worth at least a first take from the episode (It's on Netflix if you have that).

 An AMC original series, I thought nothing of it when I first started it. I got the reaction, from family and friends, that I just gave to you. Amazing, must see. However, it is hard to get into with a 6 month old in your arms at home. Eventually, I got into during nap time, and began wishing naps were longer. For those of you who are sitting there "Oh, this is just another series trying to take advantage of the whole living dead (vampires, zombies) fad" you will surely be mistaken. Or at least in my opinion.

To start out with, the show, is about a zombie apocalypse. The main character, Rick, is a small town sheriff somewhere outside Atlanta. Before the disease takes hold, Rick is shot and put into a coma, where he is left in the hospital when the dead start to walk. Left there to die, he wakes a couple months into the outbreak and goes in search of his wife and son. Sadly (or at least I think so) he finds them by episode two (or was it three?) just outside of Atlanta, after some in their group of survivors save him in the city limits of Atlanta. Well, lets say they all save each other to get out of the city and back into the camp.

However, I am going to skip to Season 3. Watch to catch up. In the last episode I have seen (there has been a few aired since then), there is breaking point that I see. Two brothers are reunited (pictured above). That got separated from the very first episode. Rick and the main group, wont let the new found brother (who was originally part of the main group) back into the main group. His brother, still part of the main group, wants him back in. There is fighting, mostly yelling, between Daryl (one of the brothers) "he is MY family" and Rick "WE are your REAL family here, the ones that take care of you, look after you, care and tend for you." In the end of this scene, Daryl walks away with Meryl (his brother), leaving the group for his blood relations.

And this brings me to Jesus and my walk with my Christian family. Yes, they may not be my blood family, but they are my family. They are the people that take care of me, look after me, feed me. All of this, not only physically, but they do this spiritually as well. And spiritually is what is important, especially in times of apocalypses. When all is said and done in the apocalypse (whenever it comes), if there is no rapture and I am left here on earth during the tribulation period, I want to be walking with my brothers and sisters in Christ. The ones who look after and feed me spiritually to survive the harsh time.

I look at the Walking Dead as a time like that, and Daryl's decision as one we all have to make. Will we choose our family that has taken care of us through the tough and hard times, or will we venture out with the unknown and step away from Christ and the care that he provides?