Dan and I watched Amazing Grace for the first time last night.

The timing was serendipitous because I saw it Saturday at the video store (yes, we still drive ourselves to the video store sometimes…things like Netflix have wasted too much time in our past) and grabbed it.

I knew it was about William Wilberforce but I had no idea my husband was teaching on him at group tonight. (They are going through this book, recommended by a man in our church.)  

I was pretty gripped by the story.  I loved when Wilberforce’s butler asked him,

“You’ve found God, sir?”

And he replies,

“I think He found me.”

The way he was tormented in dreams about the slaves and how his former preacher, John Newton, who had previously sailed slave ships said he was, “haunted by 20,000 ghosts.”

I recommend it.

I don’t think I’ll listen to the hymn Amazing Grace the same ever again.