One Story

So I was working on this 168 hour film project with a guy I met here in LA. While at lunch I sit down with one of the actors for the project. ROBERT I will call him- the name is not important, his story is.

Well I am not going to go into a whole lot of detail on this guys story but these few points. He did not grow up in the Church, and he is a part of one now. So as I am talking to Robert, he explains to me how he didn't really like the church as a people, he always felt like they were being extreme. But he LOVES God. Now most of the people who I talk to who say these things, usually just don't want to get involved, don't want to change the life they have for someone else (Christ). So you would understand the surprise I had as he told me how much he REALLY LOVES GOD. He has had amazing experiences with his creator, allowing his creator to lead him in HIS (God's) ways.

So we are talking and he describes this situation where he is praying and the prayer he lifts up is not his own but God's. If I might try to remember what he said: "I was praying and this immense weight fell into my chest, a weight for the homosexual community, now I don't personally really care about the homosexuals, but I know God does. And as I'm praying, I couldn't speak, I just groaned" He says this as he rocks his body forward and backwards, and actually groans in the middle of lunch with all these people. "So then someone comes up to me and says 'I don't know what you are going through, but Jesus does and [insert typical sunshine Christian statement here]'"

I thought this was interesting. God created us with the ability to experience immense highs and lows in our emotion, and in life. I wonder how often I brush over my own or others immense highs or lows with a simple, "Jesus Loves you, so it's okay"

Pastor Mike this past Sunday talked about "Why God allows suffering" and in it he talked about the tendency we have a s Christians to dismiss crazy emotions. He talks about people who undergo crazy lows in their life that other Christians (and more damagingly: when those who are going through the hard times are not Christians themselves) Christians glaze over these sorrows God created us to experience, and for HIM to save us out of.

I wanted to share this experience because I think it was totally a God thing, I wasn't even planning on helping out with this today, but HE is good and amazing to bring these kind of things into my life.