Presby-Musings

Today we are going to be continuing the sermon series that we started last week--a sermon series entitled, "At The Movies."  This is a different kind of series for us because we're using movies each week of the series as our inspiration and illustrations for the sermons.   As I mentioned last week, there's a deeper reason why we are doing this--aside from the obvious fact that it's pretty stinking fun, which it is.  The idea is that you and I are constantly out in the world doing theology, whether we know it or not.  God is all around us--God's presence is all throughout creation, and we are aware of this at some level, even if we don't bring it to mind every second of every day.  Everything is spiritual.  We just have to be awake enough to see it.  This week we're going to be using one of my favorite movies from last year as our inspiration and illustration:  The Lego Movie.   Here's a video clip that tells a bit of the story: ...

My ten year-old son has been building an elaborate Lego set that he got for Christmas for the past several weeks.  It was so enormous it took him a couple of months to even gather the courage to begin it.  He works on it in the playroom, taking great pains to keep his emerging creation away from his four year-old brother, who would almost certainly destroy it before it got started properly. Each time he completes a portion of the Lego set, he hides everything out of reach of his brother in a place of safekeeping.  He's been patient.  Whenever he has a free moment, which isn't often, he pulls it out and works on it a little more. The other day he brought it out to show me how much he'd gotten done.  It was fairly impressive, I have to admit.  And he's done it all on his own, without any help from me--which is a first for a set this large. Here's the thing, though.  At some point it's going to get trashed.  Something bad will happen to it...