There Is Only One Way Out
Wow, three months already? It seems I am writing in quarterly spans of time. Not exactly a good thing. And with it being so long since I last wrote, the words are strangely silent and elusive.
It’s time to get back to reading again.
But back to my point: this Friday, eight in the evening, begins the end of a journey that started back in October last year. Numerous evenings spent in the basement foodcourt of Cineleisure, as we came up with story idea after story idea. Samson? Period drama? Pillars? Cries of vengeance? Exotic, alluring women? And everything just funnelled into something terribly simple: a school. Gangs. Drugs. And of course, love. Love enough.
I started this with nothing. I kept telling myself, I’m a prose writer, durn it! Not a script writer. I just like watching movies. That doesn’t make me an authority of any degree possible on scriptwriting! And a MUSICAL, no less.
But God takes you, as I learnt today, out of your comfort zones, out of your carefully fabricated sense of safety, when He takes over. But he brings people to walk this journey with you; people He similarly raises up, with perfected strength in our weakness, fellow children of God, kings and queens all — and He shows us, beyond the shadow of doubt, why He is also the Creative God.
One night, during one of our prayer sessions, He said to me: Tell them that I am a God of Wonder.
Wonder. Amazement. Awe. Stealing gasps from gaping mouths. Sharp intakes of breath. Reeling minds. Scaling past our imaginations.
I believe, with all of my heart, I will see a God of Wonder this coming Friday and Saturday. And I know that the first and only words that will come out of my mouth, even if they only palely evoke the depth and richness of all that I feel when I experience the fierce gentleness of His presence, will be ‘Thank You’.
Looks good already. Looking forward to the musical. Good job, brother!
Hope you will be blessed by it!
NEW POST and what better to post about than FALLEN!
Am very very proud of the Musical, it’s not just a youth production, it’s God’s production.
The trailer was very moving! Very stylized cast n shots, but what stood out was the emotional wattage of the charactors. Looking fwd to watching the musical bro, am sure all the time spent watching film n applauding good film scripts can be used by god to touch hearts this fri!
Hello boss, i think you’re awesome (too)!
Get what you mean by wondering what people think of your work. Yea it’s not about self-affirmation or the need to know you’re good enough (though sometimes i DO almost believe i’m not good enough), but it’s just wanting to know that people who come across your works are able to relate to you, someway or another. Somehow there’s this sort of ‘relief’ when they do.
Just making a statement here. Haha. Anyway i hope you blog more, i like reading your stories.
See you at the musical! Can’t wait!
Thanks Jon, Grace & Claire =) Hope you all enjoyed the musical. Didn’t quite expect the inopportune laughter, but seeds are sown nonetheless. Heh!