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I just got done watching "Stranger Than Fiction". It was an odd movie. Quite strange. Actually, it seemed in a way to be an adaptation on "Adaptation". OK, I'm done with the witticisms. But they're all true.

Anyways, the movie is about a man named Harold Strick and his wris****ch. Harold is an IRS auditor. He shows some signs of having OCD, he is incredible with numbers, and he lives a monotonous, mundane, and downright boring life. He does, that is, until he begins hearing a strange lady with a British accent narrating that ridiculously uneventful life. Suddenly things start happening. A wrecking ball crashes into his living room only for the operator to find out it is the wrong house. He decides it is time to learn to play guitar. He falls in love.

At first, this voice is little more than frustrating. Yes, it is also difficult for him to concentrate on his work, but after all, he is an IRS agent. If he can't concentrate, that is a good thing for the rest of us. Things immediately go from frustrating to frantic with these fateful words: "Little did he know that this simple seemingly innocuous act, would result in his immanent death." For the rest of the movie you have two plots running parallel. You have an innocent man desperately trying to prevent his immanent death, and you have an author with writer's block trying to figure out how she will kill off her lead character. She literally kills him off with the words on her page.

How would I feel if I knew for certain that every word I write is being played out in the life of another? How would I feel if I were the man whose immanent death was "certain"? How did Jeremiah feel while for forty years he prophesied about the destruction of Jerusalem? What must it have been like, walking through the rubble, knowing that through the words he spoke, God had foreordained this calamity? What did Jesus feel when he was in the upper room knowing that the remainder of his life was to be measured in hours? How did he manage to continue moving forward knowing all that the short time remaining entailed?

There are two acts of nobility in the movie. The first, is that Harry, knowing what was coming, chose to go through with the story, and in so doing he saved the life of another. The second is that the author, knowing the power that her words carried, chose to change them and so save Harry's life.

Jesus, knowing what it would cost him chose to go through with the story and in so doing my life was saved. Even though my destiny has already been sealed, his act changed my outcome. The Author rewrote my story, and my life was saved.



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Linda

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That is sooo funny I just watched that movie too.  Kudos

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