Then, I looked for “The Green Mile” with Tom Hanks, and big man Michael Clarke Duncan, who died earlier this year. You can’t get the full movie on youtube, but a short clip of one of the last interactions between Hanks’ warden and the gentle giant inmate John Coffey (like the coffee, just not spelt the same) is worth finding ***. Hanks ask the prisoner whether he ought help him escape, because how can he face God on judgment day, when he’s asked how it was that he helped kill one of God’s “true miracles”. Coffey answers that he’s ready to go.
“I’m tired, boss. Tired of bein' on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. Tired of not ever having me a buddy to be with, or tell me where we's coming from or going to, or why. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world everyday. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head all the time.”
Sometimes I feel like that these days, reading the media, and becoming angry/upset/weary with tales of miscarriages of justice, man’s inhumanity, and examples of perversity from all around. I suppose it’s a kind of a glimpse of God’s grief at sin and its effects, and in that sense, its right and proper that I feel it, but that it should impel me, not to a desire to depart, but rather to work harder for that which is right and honest and true.
** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSo5dDoXYAM&feature=fvwrel
*** http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1_mlS_dpp4
2 comments:
It's been a very long time since I "spoke" to you. It makes me feel special that I can have a connection with people I admire....doing God's work in a far away place.
Your Blog touched me, (as they most always do when I make my way over here to read them). I too have been feel rather weary of what seems hopeless for Christians here in the U.S. How can half the people of this country embrace a party that is anathema with all that is good and right and fair. It seems like an uphill battle and now, that the elections are over, what action am I suppose to take? I vote, as I am called to do and as I feel privileged to have the freedom to do, but when the other side does not play by the same rules and cheats it's way into government....what are we, as Christians to do? I know, we are to pray. But is there and action I can take to forward our cause in government? I just feel weary. I changed my e-mail by the way. It is now, francine_saitta@yahoo.com
Am I the only person who thinks that the 2 people on the front of that DVD "Dead men walking" look like Peter and Anna?
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