Thoughts while Traveling

It is now approaching 1am and my brain still will not shut off!
After my previous blog and frustrations therein, I decided to implore Google and see what came up when searching "Desperate Housewives + Morality."

What I came across was a site called hollywoodjesus.com, & more specifically a blog by a woman named Melinda. Her words resonated with my spirit, and reading all of the comments and responses were astonishingly challenging.

Go and check it out if you dare here.
Make sure to read all the comments as well.

It really doesn't matter if we agree or disagree. Much like the conversations I have had with my friends in the green room this weekend, it's what we DO when these questions and challenges are posed that matters. We need to get in the Word, and seek our Father's heart ---only THEN will we know how to live out our faith.

What I agree with the most in this write up is this : Having these conversations about these shows that people are inevitably watching is an open door to the road that leads to Christ- the Way, Truth, & Light. What is the answer to all of this?

Jesus.

So... there is not a "redemptive" ending to the episode or the show. As Disciples of Christ, are we then just going to shrug it off and blame it on the writers of the show for not taking us viewers to the finish line? OR are we going to take the torch and run with it- finishing the glorious story of grace and redemption? In our own lives, and in the lives if those that need it desperately?

Will I one day face Jesus and He says to me, "What you did NOT do for the least of these, you did NOT do for me"? That He will say to me, "You did NOT meet these souls where they were and finish my story."

This whole thing was birthed out of frustration this evening. I have, in the midst of frustration, become convicted and challenged. Challenged to be more pro-active. To share what is revealed to me as truth and as opportunity. It's more than a silly TV show, yes. However, if this silly TV show and countless other "silly" things that are relevant to this culture can open a door for me to share the Truth, I will take it. I should be "seeing with Spiritual eyes" the world around me, and RESPONDING accordingly.

Challenged & fired up,

anna

If someone were to take a picture of me right now, it would reflect a furrowed brow and possibly pursed lips. Maybe even a "stink-eye"~

I am frustrated. It has been a long weekend of unnecessary loafing and sitting around. Backstage. In the green room, waiting for scene shift announcements. I hate technical rehearsals. I can respect the need for them and understand their importance, however as an actor, it sucks. 13 hours on a Saturday and back again on Sunday is wearing me down.

Besides, Sunday nights are precious times for me. When I am quiet and at home, watching TV whilst doing all kinds of other domestic duties, (yay for multi-tasking) inwardly gearing up for the week ahead. It's literally like an IV being stabbed into my drained introverted personality.

I am not bitter because I was yanked out of my Sunday night ritual. Just frustrated.

What I am equally frustrated at right now are ignorant comments. All I wanted to do was watch what I could of "Desperate Housewives" in the green room, and I got bombarded by "That show is so immoral" and "How can watch that garbage?"

I really don't care that I missed it, because it turned out to be re-run. That's not the point.

I get that we are all on different paths and all have our own personal convictions. But that just screamed IGNORANCE to me. None These tow people have never even sat through an episode to see the show for themselves.

First problem: Regurgitated.

I CANNOT STAND REGURGITATED. Especially when it comes to Christians spouting off at the mouth about moral issues.

Yes. It's ridiculous. Yes, from a very wide and blurry view, the show involves sex and . I just want to ask you to look a bit deeper, or simply watch to the end of an episode!! Never does a mistake happen without a consequence. These characters learn from their screw ups. It is written and executed in a very clever, witty, and satirical way. That's what sucks us in and keep us watching. But... The end never ceases to pose a question to the viewer.

In this post modern society that we live in, the questions need to be asked.

There are numerous opinions, I am aware. This is mine.

I like grass. I don't know exactly why, but I have always liked grass. Even when it makes your legs itch. I still gravitate towards it.

Today I want to rewrite the entire lyrics of that song by Jewell- what's it called?
The one that starts "It's like rain on your wedding day..." Because, well, life is just one big smelly pile of irony today. Wait, is it called "Isn't it Ironic?" or is that just another line in the song? OH, who cares. I have always found that song to be quite clever, her with her analogies-

NO, really , I have enough to fill up that entire song today. Really.

Do you ever feel so damn misunderstood that you would give anything for a "rewind" button, and right next to that, the big red "ERASE" lever?

I do.

Watched the movie "Capote" the other night. Besides the fact that I totally agree that PSH EARNED the bloody Oscar that is now gleaning his mantle, I haven't been able to stop thinking about one of my all time favorite books for the past several days. "To Kill a Mockingbird." What a great story that we should all read once a year.

I can't dwell in this land right now. On a break from rehearsal. Back to the irony.

I am gonna read that book again on vacation. I owe it to myself.