Count Your Blessings #16 – Going Wow

Wow: Used to express wonder, amazement, or great pleasure.

I went to the cinema last night with some friends. Sue is away at a Crusader camp with Jonathan and Emily. Sue has gone as an emergency cook (they were short of one) and the kids have gone along for the fun (and they are having a lot of it)

Anyway, Dave, Bob and Nina decided to take me out to the cinema to see Crash (2005).

Wow, what a film.

It starts with this line “It’s the sense of touch. I think we miss that touch so much that we crash into each other just so we can feel something.” and then off it goes. It twists and it turns all over the place. Some films have one or two story lines layered on top of each other. This film has loads and loads of layers. People crash into each other all over the place, but not car-to-car, this is all person-to-person, life-to-life, culture-to-culture, pain-to-pain and joy-to-joy. If that doesn’t make any sense, then you’ll have to go and see the film.

I can’t say I got some deep meaningful understanding from the film; it definitely challenged me about my attitudes to race. But, wow, what a film. The film ends with a man enjoying the falling snow; I had been so consumed by the film that when it became time to leave I actually looked for my coat and jumper before realising that it was still summer outside.

I love to be amazed and to go wow. Being a reserved English type I don’t spend my whole life going wow at every blade of grass. It takes something special to get a wow from me, and yet, I love it when I do. I love it that something can sneak up on me and amaze me. I love it that after 37 years I haven’t seen it all, I haven’t experienced it all. I love knowing that there is so much more to experience and so much more out there that could make me go wow.

From time to time in my life a sense God talking to me, touching my soul. Every time that happens I go wow. But this wow is different to all other wows. This wow goes much, much deeper than any other wow. That type of wow is a blessing that my meager words could never even begin to describe.

(If you don’t like swearing don’t go and see this film because there is lots of it. For me the swearing was all in context. I hate films that just swear for no apparent reason)