“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
– Lyric from Semisonic’s “Closing Time”
Christmas night, we made the horrible mistake of watching “Noah,” the Russell Crowe “epic” adaptation of the story of Noah.
Um, hello? Some stories don’t need adapting. Ever. This, and any other story from the Bible fall into the category of stories not to be monkeyed with. And, while “Noah” jumped the tracks early and often, it was particularly awful at the end of the story. (Technically, that’s not fair. It was patently awful from the very beginning. On the Grand Suckitude Scale, it was a 12-out-of-10!)
It got me thinking, though, most of our stories don’t end, even when we think they do.
Most of us celebrated the birth of a Savior on Thursday, and in a few months, many of us will celebrate His resurrection. Either of those stories lend themselves to tidy “endings.” Savior born — sinners saved. Savior rises from dead — sinner-saving validated.
But, as far as endings go, not only are those two significant — they’re sorta lonely in the whole “finite endings” analysis.
Endings, it turns out, are few and far between.
Most of the time when we think something is over, something new is getting started — and as often as not, it’s something way more better. (For those of you newer to the DD, “more better” is a technical term…)
What if we focused more time, attention and energy on the part of the story that is now — instead of worrying about how the story ends? Because, in the grand scheme of things, we already know how the important stories end. See paragraph #4 for fact checking.
But, don’t see “Noah,” ever.
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