One more video
Of the family I linked to before (you can get to the main site here if this link isn’t working). This one is called “A Taste of Heaven” and if you don’t want to listen to the sermon, let the whole thing load and then forward to the middle of the show for their music video.
Ok, the video is unintentionally funny (especially when the kids come sneaking out of a black van with rifles) but one of the things I find interesting is that clearly the family came to their modest dress, long hair and picture hats for ladies somewhat late. The girls have shorter hair and the family used to worship in a church. I wonder if it’s been hard for them (the kids) to embrace a lifestyle that is much more restrictive?
The other thing that’s interesting to me is that this family — and their patriarch — is obviously pretty active and colorful and creative. It doesn’t look to me like the other family — the one the girls married into because the girls go live with their husbands with their inlaws — has anything like the same spark. I wonder if the girl who married INTO this family and who now lives with them ever feels overwhelmed by having such a charismatic father-in-law. I wonder if the other two girls who left this family ever miss their duties helping run this show, which gave them a much larger scope than their homemaking lives must have now.
I just wonder about it. And even if I know without a doubt that I’d go stark, raving mad I also hope they’re happy because regardless of our VERY different beliefs, I feel very fond of Kressant and her little sister. (I’m going to go ahead and link to their blogs but please be respectful and don’t flamewar them. For one thing, if they take them down I’d be very sad to lose my glimpse into their lives and for another, it’d be unlikely to make them WANT to change and would just convince them that the outside world is, indeed, a cruel and un-godly one: The Smith Family and Mortonclan Anytime you see mention of the Plath family, that’s Brett’s cousin.)
*shrug* As long as they don’t come over and trash my beliefs (or lack thereof), it really doesn’t bother me. Really; certainly not worth stirring things up on someone else’s blog.
I did think the costume pictures on the first blog were adorable!
I think that some people crave order and a black and white belief
system. I don’t understand it and certainly wouldn’t want it for my life or my children’s. However, I find them very interesting and devoted to each other- at least from the small glimpse we get on a blog. I’m fond of all those girls. I hope they are happy. Or as happy as they can be. I sometimes wish I could have a conversation with them.
I don’t know what you mean by “funny.” That video was blessed by God and brought a tear of joy and praise to my eye. (Yes, you can have tears of praise; just ask Jesus.)
I don’t get all the religious symbols. Something about spending time with your kids? what was the guns thing about?
Shirky, there’s a thing in these families about having many, many children to build an army for the lord.
Wow! I was just thinking about these folks and wondering what they were up to these days. As I recall, a bridegroom got married whilst wearing a sidearm, yes?