Blog 608 – 04.20.2017
Where The Wild Things Are

Recently I was re-watching one of my favorite movies that I have on DVD and in the previews before the movie started was the trailer for the movie version of Where The Wild Things Are. It is a wonderful movie made from the beloved award winning children’s book. The story is about a young boy in a wolf suit having a howling good time with some wild creatures that he befriends. In the end he comes home to find a warm supper in his room.

We have I think like the little boy in the story ventured in to the wilds of this time and space continuum to experience a howling good time ourselves. Sadly many of us,  I think, have forgotten why we are here and have gotten all caught up in a nightmare and not the sweet dream we intended and that was intended for us. I had a preacher friend once who said that if we are unhappy we need to get under the spout where the blessings come out. One time Jesus sent the boys on into a nearby town to get some food and stopped at a well just out side the little town hoping that someone would come along and draw some water and offer him a drink. A woman came up and they had a conversation. There is a great line in the movie, The Shack, where Sarayu says to Mac about all the disagreements we have over our particular judgements regarding what is good and what is evil that, “It was always meant to be a conversation among friends.” Jesus was whatever else you think of him a great friend to everyone he met and a great conversationalist.

In the conversation with the woman he ask her about her relationships. You see Jesus knew that most men try to find fulfillment in achievement and that many women try to find fulfillment in relationships with a man and with her children, family, and friends. As healthy as this may seem to men and to women both of these approaches are doomed to failure for there is only One Source of true fulfillment and that is Love, Him/Herself. Expecting achievement or others to fulfill or satisfy is is just crazy and it never, never, ever works at least not for very long. As Jesus talked with the woman he pointed out to her that she had had several men and was still incomplete but that if she would ask him that he would give her water that truly satisfied and that would be a well inside her bubbling up to life ever lasting. That which we seek is inside us, The River, the Giver of Life, the Spout we can never be truly fulfilled or happy without.

The woman ran back to bring her friends to tell them to come meet the man who told her everything she ever did. I think that she like us so many times might have missed the point. Jesus was not trying to impress her or us with knowledge of the past or the future. He was and is always trying to remind us to live in the now and to look within for fulfillment. Right in the center of our being abides Heaven, Home, Heart three names for Papa/Mama God, the Universe. Your heart is a lot bigger than you ever dreamed. Venture into inner space.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White