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September 19, 2025 • 31 mins
Hey my Lilies 🌺,

In Episode 20, we dive deep into the moments that shape us—the wins, the lessons, and the quiet reflections that often go unnoticed. This episode is all about perspective: seeing the growth in your journey, finding strength in unexpected places, and embracing the seasons of change that God gracefully weaves into our lives. 🌿

Whether you’re sipping tea, journaling, or just taking a pause in your day, let this episode be your reminder that every small step matters, every thought has weight, and every Lily in this garden has purpose. Let’s reflect, grow, and bloom together.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back, Melilies. This is episode twenty. Can you believe it?
We've made it very far together, and today I want
to give you a longer, more in depth segment diving
into a movie and what it truly means or represents

(00:28):
should I say? The film is After Earth a twenty
thirteen American science fiction post apocalyptic action adventure. It was
directed by m Night Shamalan and co written with Gary White.
It's loosely based on the original story by Will Smith
about a father and a son on a journey into

(00:50):
the wilderness. In the movie, the story is reimagining reimagined
to take place at least a thousand years into the
future on a planet called no A Prime or humans
evacuated Earth and became after Earth became uninhabitable due to
the environmental catastrophe. While the movie runs about one hundred

(01:11):
minutes with a box office budget of one hundred and
thirty million and made about two hundred and forty three
point eight million at the box office, it's more than
just a futuristic father and son's story. The true heart
of the film is the relationship, the trials, the grief
and the guilt the characters navigate after losing a loved one.

(01:35):
Cipher played by Will Smith is the father. Katai, played
by Jaden Smith is the son. Faya, the mother portrayed
by Sophie Oh continued, Oh, I'm gonna butcher her name,
so I'm not even gonna say the last name, plays
the nursering mediator the mom, and Sinchi, Katai's sister, who

(01:57):
plays a what's her name? Lenny Cravis's daughter is the
tragic figure whose death weighs heavily on the family. So
that is the dynamic that we're looking at here. The
story explores more than survival. It's about fear, courage, and

(02:20):
growth and understanding our place in life and in relationships.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Yeah, the emergency beacon you brought me will fire a
distress signal deep into space, but it is damaged.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
There's another one in the tail section of our ship.
This is us here.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
That it's the tail somewhere in this area. It's approximately
one hundred kilometers from here. We need that beacon.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Do you understand.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Both my legs are broken, one very badly. You are
going to retrieve that beacon or we are going to die.
Do you understand? Repeat what I just said to you?

Speaker 4 (03:49):
I have to retrieve the beacon. What are we going
to die? You have air filtration on the hailers.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
You need to take one now the fluid and coat
your lungs, increasing your oxygen extraction, allowing you to breathe
more comfortably in the environment. You have six files at
your weight that should be twenty to twenty four hours each.
That's more than enough. Your life suit and backpack are

(04:26):
equipped with digital and virtual imaging, so I will be
able to see everything that you see and what you
do not see. I will guide you and be like
I'm right there with you. Take my countlass's to see
forty full twenty two configurations can tire. Every single decision

(04:54):
you make will be life or death. This is a
Class one quarantine planet. Everything on this planet has evolve
to kill humans.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Do you know where we are? No, sir, this is Earth.

Speaker 1 (05:20):
We start with the crash landing cipher as KATAI. Do
you know where we are? And the answer is Earth,
but not the Earth we know. Here's a scientific lens
earths oxygen level is about twenty one percent, mostly nitrogen

(05:45):
at seventy eight percent. This balance has been relatively stable
due to the photosynthesis and respiration Nova Prime. However, it
has different gravity and environmental conditions affact. Cipher points out
early they don't wear suits, indicating its breathable. But the

(06:05):
movie also warns us and an inhabitable planet is a
celestial body that cannot support life. Extreme temperatures, toxic atmospheres,
or lack of water makes survival impossible, and yet Earth
looks beautiful, almost inviting. This contrast sets the stage for

(06:25):
the tension between human and vulnerability. The raw beauty of
the world around us the survival playground where fear and
growth will be tested. Okay, so there's a segment two.
We're gonna break down the family dynamics of the father,

(06:49):
the mother, and the son. Cipher is disciplined in the
point of almost emotionless control. He believes is a choice
rooted and in uncertainty of the future. But Katai is
not cowardly. He creates acknowledgment and approval. Faya balances this.

(07:16):
She nurtures Katai without judgment, helping him navigate his father's
certain expectations. The lesson here a strict authority alone does
not teach strength, understanding, presence, and guidance shapes a child's
ability to grow into independence while respecting the wisdom of elders.

(07:39):
As adults, we often forget that children need not just
rules but reasoning. Teaching someone why something matters allows them
to stand strong, and that balance between authority and empathy
is what After Earth shows so vividly. The spaceship is

(08:07):
sleek and stylized aero dynamic for looks, not physics. In
space there is no air resistance, so streamlined shapes are
unnecessary and only add mass. The interior mixes with minialism

(08:29):
and imagination due to the unlabeled buttons that you would
exhibit in the first scene before the storm hits. He
uses futuristic paths though that I thought that was pretty
cool for an advancement of technology in the movie, and

(08:51):
his wife does too, exhibiting a three D projection that
she plays with in the first scene of the movie
as well, so those fil more advanced I felt for
a movie that was set a thousand years in the future.
The storm sequence raises questions of time jumping, though in reality,

(09:14):
time travel is impossible into the past and only theoretically
possible into the future through time dilation. In the movie,
the ship uses this concept for dramatic effect, but it
reminds us of a life truth. Storms, turbulence, and unexpected

(09:36):
chaos are always going to be unexpected. Cipher remains calm
and making decisions without fear. The lesson here, grounded clarity
allows us to navigate challenges with wisdom, not panic. Life's turbulence,

(10:02):
like storms in space, can always be avoided, but we
can't choose how we respond.

Speaker 3 (10:28):
Abort mission returned to the ship. That is an order.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Don't come out no matter what.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
That's an order, no bad. I can do it.

Speaker 5 (11:00):
I don't mean many. I can get across with just two.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
You need a minimum of three in halus to make
it to the tail.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
You have exhausted your resources.

Speaker 5 (11:10):
I can get across.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
I can.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
I can do it with just to die.

Speaker 2 (11:13):
This mission has reached a border criteria. I take full responsibility.
You did your best. You have nothing more to prove.
Not return to the ship.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
What was your mistake? Trusting me, depending on me, thinking
that I can do this.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Now I'm giving you an order to turn around and
return to this ship.

Speaker 5 (11:46):
You wouldn't give any other range of that order.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
You are not a ranger. Now I'm giving you that order.

Speaker 5 (12:05):
What was I supposed to do? What did you want
me to do? She gave me an order, She said,
no matter what, don't come out of that box. Was
I supposed to come out and die?

Speaker 2 (12:23):
What do you think of that? What do you think
you should have done? Because really that is all that matters.
What do you think you should have done?

Speaker 5 (12:36):
And why were you? She called out for you, she
called your name, and you wanted that because you never did.
And you think I'm a coward.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
You're wrong.

Speaker 5 (12:52):
I'm not a coward. You're a coward. I'm not a coward.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
When we reached a waterfall scene, Cipher tells Katai to
aboard mission. He replaced it. He places the weight of
the responsibility on himself. I take full responsibility, he says.
Now that phrase echoes back to Katai to since she's death,

(13:34):
when since she ordered Katai to stay in the box,
Since she gave that command as a leader, and Katai
lived with the consequences that followed it. Now in the present,
Cipher repeats the same structure of leadership with his son,
with aborting the mission and staying in the box, that's
in order, But Katai pushes back, you wouldn't give any

(14:00):
range of that order, and Cipher responds with words that
pierce deeper than the mission itself. You are not a ranger,
and I am giving you that order. That's the tension point.
Katai is left with three possible responses, fight, flight or freeze.

(14:27):
Does he freeze under the weight of his fear of
his father describing and that his father was describing all along,
Or does he take flight, retreating into self preservation. Or
does he fight, choosing action in the face of danger
even without the title ranger to define him. He chooses

(14:50):
to fight. He refuses the box, just as his father
once did. The difference is that Katai's leap isn't into
shame or regret, is into courage. As he jumps, Cypher's
voice breaks through, shouting Katai with fear in his tone.

(15:14):
That moment is powerful because for the first time, Cipher
allows emotion to pierce through his authority. No matter how
disciplined or detached a leader may be, fear for your
child is different. Fear for their life makes the most
stoic voice tremble. That leap refrains the entire narrative of fear.

(15:39):
It's not about erasing fear. It's about recognizing its presence
and still choosing the action that defines you. Katai's leap
is not only into the waterfall, but into manhood, into identity,
into choice.

Speaker 5 (16:08):
Dad, Dad, I'm here.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
How'd you do it? How'd your freshcals out for a
run alone?

Speaker 2 (16:31):
Something? What that was supposed to do? That's the d
camels rack in front of me. I go for my
cupass shoots his pencer rapped through my shoulder. Next thing
I know, we're over the cliff, falling thirty meters straight

(16:59):
down into the river. We settle onto the bottom. It's
on top of me, but it's not moving, and I

(17:20):
realize he's trying to drown me.

Speaker 3 (17:29):
I'm thinking I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die.

Speaker 6 (17:36):
I cannot believe this is how I'm gonna die. I
can see my blood bubbling up, mixing with the sunlight
shining through the water, and I think, wow, that's really pretty.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Everything slows down. I see it's penser through my shoulder,
and I decide I don't want that in there anymore,
so I'll pull it out.

Speaker 7 (18:28):
And he lets me go. And more than that, I
can tell it can't find me doesn't even know where.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
To look, and it dawned on me. Fear It's not real.

Speaker 2 (18:57):
The only place that fear can exist is in our
thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination,
causing us to fear things that do not at present
and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Katime, I,

(19:19):
do not misunderstand me. Danger is very real, but fear
is a choice. We are all telling ourselves a story,
and that daymond changed.

Speaker 1 (19:45):
After Katis Leeb. We come back to Cypher's earlier words.
Fear is a choice. That's the thread we've been weaving toward.
But let's pause here because before we can talk about
fear as a choice, we have to understand fear as

(20:05):
a science. Fear is a built in survival mechanism. It's
not random. It's our brain's way of alerting us to danger.
When the brain precedes a threat, whether it's real, like
a predator in front of us, or imagined like a

(20:26):
possibility of failure, the amygdala, the brain's emotional alarm system, activates.
In that moment, your body floods with signals. Your heart raises,
your muscles tense, your breath shortens. That's adrenaline rushing in
preparing you for fight, flights, or freeze. Think about it.

(20:52):
Fear is like your body's smoke alarm. It doesn't mean
there's always a fire, but it warns you something might
be burning. This is why sometimes fear is about survival,
but other times fear is about imagination. It's our neurons
firing in response to what could happen, not just what

(21:14):
is happening. And here's where after Earth drops its wisdom.
When Cipher tells Katai, fear is a choice, he isn't
saying fear doesn't exist. He's saying that once the alarm sounds,

(21:36):
you have the authority over your response. You can freeze
and let fear paralyze you. You can flee and run
from the cliff, or you can fight and move forward,
leap and face what stands before you. So scientifically, fear

(21:59):
is an alert. Spiritually and mentally, fear is a decision point.
That's the power of discernment, and that's where Scripture guides us,
reminding us like in Joshua chapter one, verse nine, be
strong and courageous, do not be afraid, do not be discouraged,

(22:19):
For the Lord your God will be with you wherever
you go. And after Earth, fear wasn't eliminated, it was transformed.
The alarm sounded, But Katai chose courage anyway, and that's
the challenge for us. When our neurons light up, fear

(22:42):
floods in, do we surrender to it or do we
redirect it into faith and strength? As we left off
in segment five, we asks the question do we choose

(23:06):
faith and strength when fear sounds its alarm? And that
brings us to the turning point in Katai's journey, because
when Katai leaps, he chooses fight, he chooses courage. That
moment is his declaration not just against the cliff in

(23:28):
front of him, but against the fear within him. But
courage doesn't mean the storm ends. Choosing the fight doesn't
mean the path gets easier. In fact, for Katai, the
leap launches him into its turbulence. He endures violent winds,
changing temperatures, and the constant reminder that the Ursa is

(23:52):
never far behind. That's how life works too. The moment
we decide to move forward in strength, life tests that decision.
The storm rises, The storm rises, the air thins, and
everything in us wants to retreat. This is where endurance

(24:14):
becomes just as important as courage. Courage gets you to leap,
Endurance gets you through the storm. And then when we
see something unexpected, the hawk. At first it appears just
as another predator, another obstacle, but it becomes something greater,
a protector. This hawk, which seems like a threat, ends

(24:37):
up giving its life to shield Katai. That's the reminder
that sometimes in our storms, God sends protection informs we
don't expect. What looks like an enemy may in the
end be provision. So segment six isn't just about the leap.
It's about what happens after the leap, the winds that

(24:58):
test you, the storms that pressed against you, and the
unexpected allies that remind you you're not alone. This is
where growth begins to take root. From the hawkings covering,

(25:21):
we shift into Katai's ultimate test, the Ursa. The Ursa
is more than just another monster. It is fear itself embodied,
a predator that can't see but lives off what it smells.
The sense of fear that's the metaphor. Fear doesn't have

(25:42):
to see us to stop us. It only needs to
sense us in our hesitation, in our doubt, in the
way we freeze before the leap. The ursa is that
voice of trauma, in security, and that guilt that stalks
us quiet in the shadows of our own minds. But

(26:03):
Katai's breakthrough comes not in denying fear exist, but in
mastering how he responds to it. To ghost is not
to pretend fear is i't real. To ghost is to
acknowledge it, but not let it control the moment. It's
grounding yourself in the present, your breath, your body, your awareness,

(26:30):
and choosing not to give fear power. This is where
the metaphor turns into practice. For us, life will always
present us with ursus. They may appear as failures, betrayals, losses,
or even inner battles that no one else can see,

(26:53):
but they can only smell the fear. We choose to release.
The less we give them, the more aren't invisible. We
become to their power. So the question becomes, will we
let the earth that define us or will we ghost

(27:16):
and walk forward? And this is what after earth ultimately
mirrors back to us. Humanity's relationship with fear, growth and family.

(27:37):
Fear it reminds us that while danger is real, fear
is a choice, and fear we hold the power to decide, freeze,
flee or fight. With faith. Now growth.

Speaker 3 (27:58):
Growth.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
It shows us that we are constantly becoming who we
were yesterday, who we are today, and who we are
shaping into tomorrow. It all matters. The storm tests us,
but the growth is in enjoying them, in choosing courage
again and again. Now family, Family, It grounds us in relationship.

(28:24):
Cypher and Koti's journey is about more than survival. It's
about the legacy. It's about what we pass on, about
how our presence, even our fears, affect those we love
and beneath it all faith, because choosing courage is not
just a mindset, it's a practice of trust. Trust in

(28:48):
God's word, trust that His strength becomes ours when our
strength is gone. Matthew Ful four reminds us that we
live by everywhere that comes from the mouth of God,
and in Joshua Wall chapter one, verse nine commands us
to be strong and courageous, to be not afraid, for
the Lord is with us wherever we go. So remember this.

(29:13):
You hold the key to ghosting. You hold the choice.
Whatever your ursap may be, trauma and security, fear itself.
Choose strength, Choose faith, choose courage, stand firm in God,

(29:36):
and like Kathai, you'll find that even in the storm,
you'll never truly alone. So, whether you are lily like
myself or just listening right now, I want you to
always remember this truth. Fear does not hold the final

(30:00):
say your choice does, so yourself in this present moment.

Speaker 3 (30:11):
Now sign, sound, smell what do you feel?

Speaker 1 (30:23):
Alright, my lilies? So I had fun making this one.
It was definitely a lot more to it than just
my summarization, so I hope that you guys enjoyed it
as well. I will more than likely do more of these,

(30:45):
but that means that it will be once a week
rather than twice in one week that I will put
out a podcast episode. So yeah, we would have to,
I guess vote on that. But if you enjoyed it
as much as I did, then I would definitely want

(31:07):
you guys to give me comment below, tell me what
you think. I am eager and intrigued to know your
your thoughts. For now, I just wanna say thank you.
Episode twenty is definitely a journey, and I hope that

(31:31):
I can give you more of the World of I Lily,
Bye for now, Lilies,
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