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Mystic River: Only God Can Create Clean (Psalm 51:10)

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In Mystic River, three childhood friends are bound together by a kidnapping that scarred them all. Dave, the victim, grows up haunted, his heart never fully clean. Jimmy and Sean grow up differently damaged. Create in me a clean heart, O God. Dave cannot create his own clean heart—the trauma left stains he cannot wash. Only God can create clean from defiled. The film shows the limits of human healing; some wounds only God can touch. We can pursue therapy, justice, even revenge. But a clean heart? That requires a Creator.

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Scripture References

Psalm 51:10Psalm 51:7Ezekiel 36:26

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