You Alone

I would like to say that I am one who likes to make up his own mind. When it comes to music or a book or perhaps even a film...I would like to say that I am capable of reliably making up my own mind and determining my own opinion.
Like I said....I would like to say.
I don't read many journalistic review supplements or columns so I am into what I see. You might then say that I am missing out on some of the great underground stuff. The sordid creations of the rebellious. The sheer beautiful creations of the suppressed.

Where am I going with this?

Last night contrary to journalistic...desire I guess, I watched Bruce Almighty's weedy cousin - Evan Almighty.

As is with most sequels, the plot was pretty much paper thin and rather sub-par in comparison to the braver more extravagant Bruce Almighty.
However as with those sub-par sequels, if you look hard enough, you can find the little nuggets that are worth writing about or putting on your fridge as a 'thought of the day' as such.
You know what I mean. The kind of thought that says something about disarming your enemies by being their friend. Stuff that you keep coming back to through the day.

So what exactly, I hear you ask, is the part of Evan Almighty that stuck in my mind so?

I shall tell you.

Roughly 40 minutes (1/2 way through the film), Evans wife leaves him after he leaves work and does the seemingly crazy by broadcasting the fact that God has told him to build an ark (or Act of Random Kindness). A mistake if you are a newly appointed congressman in the United States Government right? I mean...who listens to God in the mainstream world these days?
;)
So yeah...the rather attractive middle aged wife leaves her seemingly deranged husband with the kids. Then God, I mean Morgan Freeman, I mean God turns up for little conversation and brings out these gems of wisdom...or something to this effect.

If someone asks for patience, would you give them the immediate patience, or would you give them the opportunity to grow that patience on their own?

I must admit...poor job on the quoting...but the point is there.

How many times have you asked God for patience, joy, love, healing, or faith and then been pretty much immediately disappointed because all you saw was a crappy situation you had to work through.
I know that when I have prayed for those things, I will ask for them then have quite a hard time where (in hindsight I can see that) I had to exercise the very thing I was asking God for.
Whenever I prayed for faith, I would have a busy week like no other and have to totally rely on the knowledge that God would bring me through.
As I can guess when you pray for love. You may endure a situation where you have to learn the ways of the very thing which you ask God for.

I don;t know what my point was in all of this. My head is all over the place I must admit...but that's all for another day.

Love love love.

Dan xx