Enough of ROM/ wedding updates. Shall not bore you all with the boring details.
A thoughtful post.
Today i went to watch EVAN ALMIGHTY with Trish. Thought it would be your normal typical comedy show. However strangely the show shruck a cord with me. I mean my friends will know me as someone who just takes whatever good things that come, i mean honestly the more the merrier. That is me. Well here goes...
The show talks about GOD asking Evan (Steve Carrell of 40 year old virgin fame) to build an ark. He showed him in Gen 6:14 (which in order to understand this verse completely you will need to read from Gen 6:13 to 22). Before this episode, Evan was a clean and selfish freak. He had neglected his family in order to be congressman and his slogan was 'Change the World'. So one day his family had decided to pray to God asking of certain things. His wife actually asked him what did he pray for? He could not answer, though he did pray in the end quietly in the middle of the night. He prayed that God will show him the way to 'Change the World.'
Subsequently God (Morgan Freeman) appeared before him and ask him to build an ARK. Being a freak that he was and facing the need to excel in his new role as congressman, he could not take it of coz. Friends and family started to see him as a weirdo or congressman gone mad. They all left him alone. This was the part that struck me. God actually appeared before his wife giving her advice since she was obviously feeling low that her husband had gone mad, building an ark in the middle of 21 century. God told her that when one prayed for a courage, do God give the person courage straight away or allow the person opportunities to display acts of courage?
At that point, the sentence was very poignant for me. I had been asking God to give me faith and also give me wisdom. I realized that he had been giving me various opportunities at my workplace to display my moments of wisdom. I had doubted HIS existence coz I had never felt HIM. I had think that HE was fake, or that I am just weird for not able to feel his existence.
Though till date I can’t say I feel his actual presence, but I think HE is definitely there. And like the show depicted, HE loved all of us before we know and love him.
One more thing from the show - Way to Change the World is by doing Acts of Random Kindness (ARK) one at a time.
Amen.
For more info about the movie, kindly visit the attached URL.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Almighty