S1E9&10 "Everybody Lives!"

     I believe I could watch these two episodes ("The Empty Child" & "The Doctor Dances") over and over! I never realized before how many fandom quotes come from these two: and no wonder -they're quite pithy and funny! Rose's T-shirt alone would be sufficient for a few laughs, but throw in her obsession with Spock-like alien tech, Captain Jack Harkness, and a sonic screwdriver, and you're in for some classic lines, like, "who looks at a screw driver and thinks, 'ooh, this could be a little more sonic'?" And, "don't you ever get tired of 'Doctor'? 'Doctor' who?!" And let's not forget the most over-used line ever: "are you my mummy?"

"It's a screwdriver!" 

     Memes aside, I keep coming back to the scene with Nancy & Rose when Rose reveals that she and the boys are actually time travelers from the future. "What future?" Nancy asks as bombs explode over-head in the WWII German air-raid. 
 "Nancy this isn't the end. I know how it looks, but it's not the end of the world or anything." Of course Nancy was skeptical, "How can you say that? Look at it!"  
"The Germans don't win. You win!" Rose replies - full of hope. 

"What Future?"

      People often have a misconception about the word"hope." They use it interchangeably with "wish." A wish is a fancy, an imagining, simply a fleeting dream. A "hope" on the other hand is based on something substantial, something tangible, some person or fact. Rose was hopeful because she based her statement on fact! She knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that London would survive -that the Germans would lose -because she'd seen the future. She spoke with confidence because her hope was founded on truth. 

"It's not the end of the world or anything."

     That's the sort of hope that Christians should have - because we know the future. The Truth of God's Word has already spoken of God's victory:"death is swallowed up in victory. O death where is your sting [...] thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ." Christians are on the winning side: "for everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world - our faith." 

     Rose had every reason to place her trust in Britain - that "soggy Island" - because she knew it came out on top! So we can trust our Saviour. "For I know that my Redeemer lives and at the last He will stand upon the earth," says Job. Yes, things may look bleak at times - nothing God didn't see coming, mind you. It may appear like the future doesn't exist, but we can rest in the faithfulness of God - the Beginning and the End - and His promise to return and reign. "Let not your hearts be troubled... I will come again." "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I [Jesus] have overcome the world." 

"Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once, everybody lives!"

      So are you on the winning side? Then why worry? Rejoice in "our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Saviour Jesus Christ." We may lose a battle here or there, but we've already won the war! So wear that shirt with pride (metaphorically speaking, of course), and live a life filled with hope! A happy ending is coming - a day when "just this once, everybody lives!"

"Are you sure about that T-shirt?"
"Too early to say. I'm taking it out for a spin."