ON LIVING LIFE

There is a poster in the background during the film asking the question WHERE DO YOU FIT IN? This is the only scene where the characters genuinely seem to share a moment together without ulterior motives. Avery says, In a world of disconnection, I wanted to visually illustrate connection. This prompts Sean to get a glimpse that a deeper connection IS possible. At the end of the film, I sensed Sean may be ready to leave the past behind, move on, and search his soul. We're left with the feeling that the characters have gained some knowledge about themselves and the emptiness of their actions -- a glimmer of hope. The film ends abruptly, almost Rapture-like.

Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what makes life worth living.
--JUVENAL (C. 60–C. 127)

Death is more universal than life; everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
--A. SACHS

Every man’s life is a plan of God.
--HORACE BUSHNELL (1802–1876)

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.
--HENRY WARD BEECHER (1813–1887)

ON LIVING LIFE

Ephes. 2:1-10 (MsgB)
It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin. You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.

Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.

Hebrews 9:27 (MsgB)
Everyone has to die once, then face the consequences.

James 5:10 (MsgB)
Take the old prophets as your mentors. They put up with anything, went through everything, and never once quit, all the time honoring God.

1 Cor. 10:13 (MsgB)
No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it.

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