Garden State of Mind

So all last week I was in a movie watching mood.

Those of you who know me very well, are probably thinking, So what's new about that?

Nothing. Except it was kind of like having a "movie itch" and none of the movies I watched was scratching it. So, the other day, having still failed to satisfy this mood, I really wanted to watch a movie... something I've seen before.

I didn't want to go rent a movie, I wanted to watch something I own. But looking through them, I just wasn't convinced. So I looked through them again...

...and again...





and again...



And once more. And then I settled, or at least, I thought I settled.

On Garden State.*

And I continued to feel like I was just settling on it, all the way up to the point I pressed "play".


WHAM!

At that moment, there was no other movie on the planet I would rather have been watching. I was so glad to be watching it. It was the movie I'd been wanting to watch all week, and didn't realize it.

Has that ever happened to you? You just sort of put a movie on... almost for the heck of it, but immediately realize that you're so excited to be watching it? Or sometimes it happens with a friend; they bring over or suggest a movie they want to watch and you're just kind of humoring them, but as soon as it get's going...

...shazzam.


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Forgive any flakiness, but do you think maybe sometimes that's how God has to work/talk with us? I don't mean with Garden state, but as a parallel**, let's say that for some reason God did want me to watch that or some movie. But I just interpret it as an urge to watch a movie. So I spend days seeing everything I want to watch and then everything I'm just willing to watch... but still the urge won't go away.

So then I'm sitting there, having exhausted my own impulses and desires and "interpretations" of what I thought would satisfy this need.

And it's at that point, when I'm looking at everything I have access to, and almost at random, I pick a movie that seems like it might be the best option of what's left...
and as soon as I push play I realize it was the movie I wanted/needed to watch the whole time.


Just a thought.




*Garden State is very committed to it's R-ratedness. This entry is not intended as an endorsement or a recommendation of this movie to any family readers out there.

**Seriously, by "parallel" I mean "comparison"... I do not mean God is saying to watch this movie.