Running it into the Ground (Part 1)
I started posting a comment to your post Shonnie, and it became so long, that I decided I'd initiate the "running the topic into the ground" portion of this blog, and respond to your post.
"I Love fun"
"Something about this phrase in Dre's post disturbs me a little and I can't put my finger on it.... I think fun is great, but isn't there so much more to life then just this."
Thank you for saying this. You're absolutely right, there IS more to life than fun! This is a tough lesson to learn, but it's one that must be learned by all of us, "fun lovers" out there. As the bible says there's "a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance," just because it (the non-fun thing) is unpleasant it doesn't mean that it's not valuable or necessary. So, I do agree with you on this point, however, for me fun can be mindless and meaningless, but it CAN be used for a higher purpose as well. It can help break the ice with a non-believer; it can further a friendship, or even make an unpleasant conversation a little more bearable. (To continue to beat the horse to death) There is a personality style that (A) responds best to this style of friendship or even ministry, and (B) because we are the body of Christ, the most effective way to facilitate ministry is by doing ministry with people that are different yet complimentary to us. If we (our whole group of friends) were similar we'd be MUCH less effective in ministry because we don't compliment each other as well. God knows us, he knows and created our personality, and he wants to use us as individuals and as a group to further His glory and will upon the earth, so it's important to know your personality and be true to it, and allow the Lord to place you in a group that will best highlight that which you are naturally good at like HAVING FUN!!!!
"If I had a chance to choose between any adam sandler movie and hotel rwanda, I would hope that I would be strong enough to choose hotel rwanda every day over any adam sandler flick."
I don't know if I can express to you, exactly how impressed by this statement I am... I could absolutely NOT do this, or even want to... I don't even hope that I'd want to do this... first off all, why watch Hotel Rwanda every day!?! If you'd choose to watch a meaningful, social-statement-making movie, over a comedy I could understand, but if literally you'd watch Hotel Rwanda over ANY Adam Sandler movie that would be whack! (First of all, he did make the movie Punch-Drunk Love, (which isn't exactly an "Adam Sandler Flick" but still he's in it, (as is Academy Award winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman... but I digress...) and it's a movie that IS a good example of a movie that can be used to "educate and entertain". So why not watch that one? I understand that you and I are different in our views of films within the comedy genre. I take your statement above as this "I'd be perfectly happy, never to watch another mindless comedy for the rest of my life." Again I say, wow, a very noble mission. But please don't give up on the entire genre, because watching a comedy can be a transcending experience. Laughter is a beautiful thing, that God created, so please don't limit the experiences you could have to express your laughter to the world, because your laughter could profoundly effect someone around you, and you might never know it.
"Laughter and things that make me feel good almost blind me to those things (hurt and sadness). it's like I'm putting a veil over my eyes just to be comfortable when it's only when I let the light in that I can see."
Knowing, that there is hurt and sadness in the world, indeed even within my (and others) own life, it makes laughter more precious. It (laughter) IS the light that allows me to see what's ahead of me, it is (or at least can be) the driving force that allows me to draw nearer to the Lord and serve Him. It lifts the veil it doesn't cinch it tighter around my eyes. (I think it can, so I agree with you to an extent... but it doesn't have to.) My prayer is that it never will...
Dre :)
ps- My boss called and asked me to stop putting smiley faces on my time sheets at work, he said "I know you're happy, you don't need to keep drawing it on your time card."
"I Love fun"
"Something about this phrase in Dre's post disturbs me a little and I can't put my finger on it.... I think fun is great, but isn't there so much more to life then just this."
Thank you for saying this. You're absolutely right, there IS more to life than fun! This is a tough lesson to learn, but it's one that must be learned by all of us, "fun lovers" out there. As the bible says there's "a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance," just because it (the non-fun thing) is unpleasant it doesn't mean that it's not valuable or necessary. So, I do agree with you on this point, however, for me fun can be mindless and meaningless, but it CAN be used for a higher purpose as well. It can help break the ice with a non-believer; it can further a friendship, or even make an unpleasant conversation a little more bearable. (To continue to beat the horse to death) There is a personality style that (A) responds best to this style of friendship or even ministry, and (B) because we are the body of Christ, the most effective way to facilitate ministry is by doing ministry with people that are different yet complimentary to us. If we (our whole group of friends) were similar we'd be MUCH less effective in ministry because we don't compliment each other as well. God knows us, he knows and created our personality, and he wants to use us as individuals and as a group to further His glory and will upon the earth, so it's important to know your personality and be true to it, and allow the Lord to place you in a group that will best highlight that which you are naturally good at like HAVING FUN!!!!
"If I had a chance to choose between any adam sandler movie and hotel rwanda, I would hope that I would be strong enough to choose hotel rwanda every day over any adam sandler flick."
I don't know if I can express to you, exactly how impressed by this statement I am... I could absolutely NOT do this, or even want to... I don't even hope that I'd want to do this... first off all, why watch Hotel Rwanda every day!?! If you'd choose to watch a meaningful, social-statement-making movie, over a comedy I could understand, but if literally you'd watch Hotel Rwanda over ANY Adam Sandler movie that would be whack! (First of all, he did make the movie Punch-Drunk Love, (which isn't exactly an "Adam Sandler Flick" but still he's in it, (as is Academy Award winning actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman... but I digress...) and it's a movie that IS a good example of a movie that can be used to "educate and entertain". So why not watch that one? I understand that you and I are different in our views of films within the comedy genre. I take your statement above as this "I'd be perfectly happy, never to watch another mindless comedy for the rest of my life." Again I say, wow, a very noble mission. But please don't give up on the entire genre, because watching a comedy can be a transcending experience. Laughter is a beautiful thing, that God created, so please don't limit the experiences you could have to express your laughter to the world, because your laughter could profoundly effect someone around you, and you might never know it.
"Laughter and things that make me feel good almost blind me to those things (hurt and sadness). it's like I'm putting a veil over my eyes just to be comfortable when it's only when I let the light in that I can see."
Knowing, that there is hurt and sadness in the world, indeed even within my (and others) own life, it makes laughter more precious. It (laughter) IS the light that allows me to see what's ahead of me, it is (or at least can be) the driving force that allows me to draw nearer to the Lord and serve Him. It lifts the veil it doesn't cinch it tighter around my eyes. (I think it can, so I agree with you to an extent... but it doesn't have to.) My prayer is that it never will...
Dre :)
ps- My boss called and asked me to stop putting smiley faces on my time sheets at work, he said "I know you're happy, you don't need to keep drawing it on your time card."
posted by The Dre | 2:36 AM
1 Comments:
guys and gals,
this is a serious talk about fun and a funny talk about serious stuff. God's speed.
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