Good morning…
I went to a movie with one of my best girlfriends this weekend.
Miss You Already, starring Drew Barrymore, is very moving, raw and real. The story chronicles the journey of two lifelong friends, through flawed relationships and infertility, through cancer and childbirth, through love that hurts and love that heals. Many in the theater were quietly weeping as the experiences on screen mirrored some of our own. This is not a movie for everyone, those who have recently lost loved ones or who are currently battling cancer may find that this movie lives too close their home. From the plateau where I am temporarily camping, this movie-going experience challenged me to see a panoramic view of real life. The most profound art helps us to lift our eyes to the horizon, to take in life’s breathtaking beauty and life’s undeniable brokenness. Honest expression speaks truth: life’s joy and life’s pain, life’s laughter and life’s heartache, each are drawn up from the same deep well.
I predict this movie will not be a best seller at the box office, but most of the imperfectly beautiful pieces of our ordinary lives would not draw a crowd, would spark more tears of understanding than wide-spread applause. Those of us who enjoy movies that help us to feel deeply, offering a genuine cathartic release, should buy a ticket, bring a friend, and carry along some Kleenex. With touching tears and smiles of solidarity, the Holy Spirit tenderizes a theater full of hearts.
Young women will dance and be happy,
young men and old men will join in.
I’ll convert their weeping into laughter,
lavishing comfort, invading their grief with joy, Jeremiah 31:13 (MSG),
Sue
