Film Friday David and Sarah are strangers that meet at a wedding. Neither are looking for any commitment. After bantering a little at the wedding they both set off back home, having unknowingly hired cars from the same strange rental car agency. However David’s satnav suddenly asks him if he wants to go on a big, bold, beautiful journey, and after thinking David eventually says okay. The satnav tells him to pull in at a burger joint which he does. And guess who is sitting there? Sarah. So begins this journey in which they are taken to a series of doors, each one leading them to an encounter with their past and their true selves. I used to pass on the saying –
‘Life is an adventure to be lived, not a problem to be solved.’ I realise now I was talking to myself. So often I try and control life rather than experiencing it. A friend gave me another saying – ‘God is always present, the problem is, I am not.’ When Moses asked God’s name in Exodus chapter 3 the name he was given is I Am. The God of now. The God of this present moment. Jesus lived life to the full, embracing interruptions and the unexpected instead of battling them. Living in the present moment with his father. It’s odd to think that when I started my life as a Christian Jesus knocked at the door of my life and he waited for me to open it, and having done that, I then surrendered control to him. But now I suspect that at times I keep trying to take it back. All of this reminds me of that poem by Minnie Louise Haskins – I said to the man at the gate of the year, give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: ‘Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way.’
Lord please help us today to tune into you with us in each moment, and to place our hand in yours so you may lead us.
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