Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Which Character Are You?

I love the movie The Village. It says a lot to me. One of my favorite parts is when Ivy, the heroine of the movie, decides to take a chance, go into the forbidden woods, to reach the towns on the other side to fetch medicines for her slain lover. Ivy is blind and can only see colors. So Ivy takes her leap of faith, only driven by the hope that the "ones we don't speak of" are not real. Her father, who is an Elder of the village, has two guides go with her. They meet her and go to the gate where they will enter the woods. Ivy walks through the gate and one of the guides follows. He soon catches up to her only to tell her the other guide is staying behind. She turns to him and pleads for him to go with them. She tells they will be safe. He turns his back, Ivy and the other guide continue on to the towns. Until it rains and they have to stop and take cover. When it clears the other guide leaves her as well, telling her that the "ones we don't speak of" will have mercy on her, because she is blind, but they will kill him. When I have the time I will find that part from the movie and put it on here, because I think the words are profound as well.
I wonder what character are you? I would like to think I'm Ivy. I feel as though I am any more. Although I'm not physically blind, I feel in so many other ways I am. I'm now on this journey trying to get to the next town, I'm blind as to how to get there and it feels so lonely sometimes. All I want is to get to the towns, get the medicine I need heal myself and take it to others. I just don't know if its possible. I keep feeling like I'm going to be stuck in the woods forever, just wondering around, running from the things I don't talk about, and never making it to the end. I guess this is what the whole PoMo thing has been for me and working on all these thoughts on the Emerging Church. So I wonder, where are you? Why do you think you are whatever character you choose?

Blessings for now-

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