Completely Out of Sync

Do you ever feel that life is a one way street and you’re headed the wrong way? Do you sometimes have the sense you’re out of sync with the world you live in? I do.
Once again Rosemary and I find ourselves at odds with the movie critics and apparently most of the movie going world. Last night we did something we hardly ever do: we went to see a movie the first day it’s out. We normally avoid this because for the first few days the theater can be crowded. But we had seen the previews for Leap Year. We love Amy Adams and loved the glimpses of scenic Ireland that the previews provided. As it turns out the theater wasn’t crowded, some folks are apparently reading the reviews. We loved the movie and thought it was one of the best we’ve seen. The critics completely disagree. The movie isn’t deep or socially significant or politically relevant. Maybe that’s why we loved it. We go to the theater for release, release for a world that takes itself too seriously, a world that no longer believes that the simple things are best, or that love is best when it’s most improbable. Don’t we all dream of going off somewhere on an unlikely adventure to a place where i-phones and blackberries are out of place? Don’t we still believe that marriage is for people who love each other and not for those who are perfect computer matches?
We still like a movie that reminds us why we fell in love and why we are still in love. If that’s out of sync with the rest of the world, that’s really sad.
Does any of this have anything to do with OC’s thoughts for today? No, not really. I read Utmost three times and still don’t understand it. Try this one: ” The great mystical work of the Holy Spirit is in the dim regions of our personality which we cannot get at.” I’m sure there is a great truth there, but I’m not getting it.
Maybe that’s why I like movies no one else does. Or maybe some things are just too deep for today. I’m off to my Kairos meeting, people don’t nnderstand why I love that either.
You read Utmost and tell me what it’s about. For me, maybe I’m just out of sync.
Be blessed anyway.
Nick