7 Days in Utopia
I saw this movie two days ago and am still reflecting the impact.
What do we bring to another's home when we run away?
Sometimes we bring a temper tantrum. Sometimes an attitude. Sometimes pain or heartache. Perhaps humiliation and regret. Sometimes things are hidden, but sometimes everyone sees and knows, even if we think they don't.
In this story, there were people willing to receive a young man who had made a lot of mistakes and the story allowed for those mistakes again and again.
He was not perfect, nor were the players in the story. Neither am I.
As I watched, I could identify with everyone. I identified with the one who came in a mess, the one needing the help. Have I not been in such a place, such a mess, too big to get out of it alone?! He knew he could not return home and he knew he had no where to go and so he turned to strangers for help. He didn't really even turn to them, it was arranged for him.
He was not happy about it. It just was.
Are there not things in are lives we are not happy about. But we know that we cannot go back until some things are dealt with. It may not always be about the past, even in the present. Is there not a deeper place of the soul that God may want to speak to us about and we must allow, even at times, complete strangers, to speak and love and enter into our mess, for the sake of what He is after?
Will you allow God to work? Will you allow God permission into your soul? Will I?
It may look like choice is not a part of the story, but it always is. Always. You and I decide if we will keep running or walk into the deeper places where God is calling.
Do you hear the invitation? What is your response?
"I am standing at the door of your heart, I am knocking, gently, waiting, patiently. I would like for you to let me in. What is your answer?" Revelation 3:20
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