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Life has been good. My favorite kind of movie is the kind of movie where for most of the movie you’re totally confused as to what is going on, but by the end everything comes together in perfect harmony. I love the intricate planning and structuring that is required to make a film like that. You’re always left with a sense of awe and bewilderment. Movies that are like this would be “The Usual Suspects”, “Momento”, “Fight Club”, and “Lucky Number Slevin”.
When you watch a movie like this you have to pay special attention to the details of the movie and stick it out the whole way through. If you walk in at the end of the movie or leave before its over you don’t get the whole picture of the film and miss out on the greater idea of what is being presented by the director, writer, and cast. The second time you watch the movie it all makes sense, because you see the big picture, you know the ending. Just as the writer would feel the first time he/she saw the movie.
Well life appears to be the same way. There’s things that happen in life that make no sense as to why they are happening. We have our own ending in mind for life, or our plan, and when things happen that go against that ending it just doesn’t make sense. Just as if you were to sit down to watch “Titanic” and wanted it to end with everyone being safe and landing in their destination of New York. When things happened in the movie that went against your preferred ending (i.e. the ship hitting the ice berg) you would be confused and upset.
The writer of life, God, knows the ending (which by the way I hate to spoil it for you, but He wins). As He watches life unfold, not sure if He actually watches it unfold – as watching assumes that there is precession for God, that time passes, and that God is in time – this is all a too massive theological issue to address here, but He knows exactly what is going to happen. Nothing surprises Him. If we live life similar to the way we would watch a movie - taking things as they come - still planning for the future - but being able to adapt that plan to the unforseen - we may be better able to trust in the Director of life. Much like the complicated plot of a movie, if we pay attention along the way we may see where He is pointing us.
Now back to the original point. Life has been good. I’m at a point now, much like the end of a movie, where I can look back and the events of the past make sense. They line up with where I am now. They got me where I am. And behind those past events in the shadows is seen a Mighty Hand orchestrating it all.
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Disciple of Christ, Husband, Father, and IT-guy.
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