I like movies, always have, in fact I thought maybe one day I could dance with Fred Astaire or be in the new version of “A Chorus Line”. I think everyone likes movies for varying reasons, escape, adventure, entertainment, ……..the kissing scenes with Kevin Costner……
Before we had kids we went to the movies often, now we just rent them or watch them on Netflix. You know, much past 9:30pm, I’m watching the back of my eyelids. This drives my husband crazy!
I like watching the special features, the deleted scenes, alternate endings, the gag reel. Wouldn’t it be cool if like were like a movie? You could delete those moments like when my Catholic school uniform skirt flew up in eighth grade gym class in front of everyone or last year when I dumped an entire 9×13 pan of unbaked peach cobbler in to my oven and the drawer underneath. Yes, that would be great. My gag reel would probably be longer than the movie!
I guess life IS kind of like a movie or maybe a sit-com. Your parents are the Executive Producers, (nice title huh Mom?) When you are a baby, you are the star and the director all in one, (take that Ben Affleck). Eventually, you are promoted to the screen writing team and them you get to hire your own director – who will it be?
When I was twenty-two years old, I got a new director; he’s always available, he loves all the actors in my movie and he works cheap! I call him G-O-D. He has been writing the script of my life for eternity and says I don’t need a makeup and hair person (are you sure? I was a teen in the 1980s). Lately he is changing up the location of my movie set, to a wide open space in North America called Manitoba Canada, I say it slowly like Sandra Bullock’s character says “A – la -ska” in The Proposal. Partly because I am excited and partly because I am not so sure I would have chosen this exotic location. I mean I’ve heard Tahiti is nice Lord!
What I am sure of is that I have the best “leading man” (my hubby) and cast of supporting actors (my kiddos) and I am sure, in time, the animals on set and I will learn to work together. (Although I have heard that the bears eat all the free food and the moose is a diva).
I have learned a lot this last year working with senior citizens, I am sure some of them would tell you they wish they could choose the “alternate ending” feature. Maybe get a wardrobe and makeup person, a fake tan. Some of them, like my friend, named after the Greek goddess of mischief (she wears the moniker well), wouldn’t change a thing and will sit through the ending credits with a cold Keystone Light in one hand and a cane in the other with a smile on her face.
Think about your life’s movie, is it time to turn over the directing to Him, have you been writing your own script for so long that the storyline is getting old and you’re tired of playing the same character over and over again? I know, if you let Him, God can make you the next superstar in your very own blockbuster hit. He may have an alternate ending in mind for the story you began on your own…….just ask Him, He already knows what the credits will say.
DISCLAIMER: No animals or peach cobbler were harmed in the making of this blog post.
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