Okay…so maybe it should read “movies” though not quite, for us. I rarely go to movies…used to rent videos/DVD’s for the weekends. All the comforts of home, even most of those found at the cinema. One, costs less to see the movie; fresh pot of coffee brewed, fridge full of water, soda, Gatorade, beer (Beer?? Oops, no…that’s for Sunday afternoon football). Bowls of fresh popcorn, slathered in as much butter as you want (or not) with condiments such as garlic, chili…and even caramel. Potato chips, dips (the edible dips, not the two esconced in the comfy armchairs)…my goodness, even dinner and a movie concurrently if you time it right. (Mother didn’t allow reading at mealtimes but never said a word about ‘watching’…), not forgetting the Gummi Bears. We don’t have to take into consideration timing and being home for the dogs and while a 62″ screen isn’t the cinema…hey, it’s the next best thing.
So today was a perfect day for as many as could to huddle on the couch and enjoy a piece of fluff. Actually, we re-watched “Deep Impact” first and then decided on “Evan Almighty”…from the sublime to the ridiculous? Maybe…but it was fun. I enjoyed both of them but probably Evan Almighty more, never having seen it before today and then gleaning some food for thought from one scene in particular. Not that I hadn’t considered or didn’t subscribe to the idea before today. I had…often.
I’m not religious…said that many times but only that I don’t subscribe to organized religion or even any one faith. I believe in the sacred, the divine…be it pertaining to Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha or Vishnu yet follow none or maybe all for there are certain nuggets in each one which really aren’t all that different to another. Anyway, the scene to which I refer is when Morgan Freeman (as God) points out that prayers are not necessarily answered in the manner to which we might expect and, if you think about it, how true that could be. How many times in our lives have we wished for strength to overcome a trial or hardship, how many times for the means to acquire something…be it a tangible, material or a trait, something to help build our character? I know the times I’ve done so there has been no direct “answer”…no sudden ‘gift’ of what I was looking for or believed I needed and didn’t have. But…in almost every instant been given a circumstance or situation, the opportunity for something required of me in order to realise what I sought. It’s a good lesson…like most lessons, when learned through doing or being, of finding what we need within ourselves and often through particular hardship or sorrow, we learn and appreciate much more than if handed to us on a platter. Even if it was a lesson we didn’t realise we wanted or needed to learn. For myself, looked at in this manner I have to admit it seems there is no prayer goes unanswered. Sometimes we just ask the wrong question.
Funny how even a “fluff” movie can get you thinking.
