the invention of hugo cabret

Ever since I read Wonderstruck by Brian Selznick, I have wanted to read The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  Two weeks ago we watched the movie, Hugo, and we loved it.  The story is so fresh and interesting.  Brian Selznick has a way of blending fiction with reality and he's good at it.  Finally, I found a copy checked in at the library this week.  I read it in two days.  Like Wonderstruck much of The Invention of Hugo Cabret is in pictures, much of them drawn by Selznick himself.

I loved the book just as much as the movie.  Seeing the movie first did not diminish reading the book in anyway.  Whoever cast the actors and did make-up for the movie did an excellent job matching the physical appearances Selznick gave them in his illustrations.  The storylines of the movie and book differ a little, but not significantly.

My favorite quote of the book:

"Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city.  I like to imagine that the world is one big machine.  You know, machines never have any extra parts.  They have the exact number and type of parts they need.  So I figure if the entire world is a big machine, I have to be here for some reason.  And that means you have to be here for some reason, too." --Hugo Cabret

This quote reminds me much of this verse from Ephesians.
"¹⁴ As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; ¹⁵ but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, ¹⁶ from whom the whole body, being fitted and held together by what every joint supplies, according to the proper working of each individual part, causes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love. Ephesians 4:14-16 NAS

God is fitting his church together with all the exactly right parts, and you, if you are His, are one of those parts.

What a relief to know that we are fitted together and held together  and we don't have to do the fitting and holding like Papa Georges or Hugo or Hugo's father do with their tools and their gears and cogs.
But that Christ holds all things together, including us. 

¹⁵ The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. ¹⁶ For in him all things were created:  things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities;  all things have been created through him and for him.  ¹⁷ He is before all things  and in him all things hold together.  Collosians 1:15-17 NIV

Remember on those days, when you can't hold it together, you really don't need to, Christ is holding all things together.