... was saved by grace and invited to faith and so are we all.” (5) “God accepts and transforms the unacceptable, loves the un-loveable, forgives the un-forgivable.” That’s grace. In a scene from the movie Ironweed, the characters played by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep stumble across an old Eskimo woman lying in the snow, probably drunk. Inebriated themselves, the two debate what they should do about her. “Is she drunk?” asks Nicholson’s character. “Just a bum. Been one all her life,” says ...
... shocked when men and women don't act like that in real life. We conjure up images and illusions of perfection and get divorced when reality and its people aren't perfect. We want our teachers to be like Robin Williams, our wives to be like Meryl Streep, our boyfriends to be like Mel Gibson, and our girlfriends to be like Cindy Crawford in heat. We live in such a world of illusion that reality would kill even our national politicians: George Bush had to maintain the illusion that we were not in a recession ...
... a voice numb with despair, Bill said, "I would give anything if I could undo the hurt I have caused my children." (2) Some actions involve unacceptable risks for the follower of Jesus. In the movie Out of Africa, there is a scene where the heroine, played by Meryl Streep, takes a risky trip into the wilderness and has a close encounter with a lion. Later, the movie's hero, played by Robert Redford, offers her this advice: "It's all right to take a chance," he says, "as long as you're the only one who will ...
... down, preferably under ground, and pray. No matter how complex the weather system, your best response is simple and straightforward. The complicated part is doing the simple. That phrase “It’s complicated” was enshrined in a movie starring Meryl Streep a few years ago with the title "It's Complicated." But “It’s complicated” is most often associated with the Facebook relationship status, where the choices are “single,” “married,” “in a relationship with” or “it’s complicated ...
... , and this interest shapes that person's entire life - usually from very early on. Mozart and Mendelssohn composed and performed music even when they were very small children. Bobby Lewis, the acting teacher who has taught such people as Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, Meryl Streep, Karl Malden, Katherine Hepburn and many others, is fixated on the idea that imagination is the key to success as an actor. Everything he does as a teacher of the dramatic arts revolves around this theme of imagination. The poet W.H ...
