Path, Journey, Desert, Lifewalk, Wilderness, Timeline..or Destination?

Great conversation today, gang!

We started by talking about several movies that all share a theme of "our lives are more cinnected/interconnected than we think/realize." We mentioned

• Crash
• 13 Conversations About One thing
• "Magnolia"
• Can you name a few others?  ("Girl Walks into a Bar"  and Short Cuts  and (one of my favories, "Grand Canyon")

We noticed that several of these had Bible references, even Exodus references.
There are some obvious Exodus reference in  Magnolia...sometimes someone even holds up as a sign with Exodus chapter and verse:

Even a plague of frogs:

So..question: why, in our generation,. so many films like this?

So.. wuestion. what's the connection between Exodus themes and the  "our lives are more cinnected/interconnected than we think/realize" theme?

How might that theme be present, or latent/embedded/between the lines in Exodus?
Think about 1000s of people travelling/wondering together for 40 years..Surely there were days where one traveller met someone new, etc and discovered commonality (besides the obvious, the liminal journey that they were sharing?  Maybe the fact that theyy were all on a liminal journey together made them more open to sahring their personal journey/life story along the way. (Microcosm and microcosm)

We played a new clip  ("They Were Not Wandering"from Ray Van Der Laan from "The Desert  series"  (previews)
One thing that is strilinbg about this new serties is Van Der Laan shares far more pesonal stories about hismelf (like his mon dating in a carcarsh whiile they were filming, and his bypoass surgery.  Thjs series also emphasizes "deserts" that people on the tour (and people in general go through."

We noticed that the path in the desert (much emphasis on the Bible word "path") was in a way more important than the destination.  We learned the word "walk" and "life" are the same word in both Bible languages

HMMM..
Unfirtunately, the video  froim tiday is not online,
but here an introduction to the new series, suggesting "God is sufficient in the dessert you are going through":




Here is a video VDL made for the hospital where he had his surgery:


It gave us a closer :realtionship with him, after months of watching him a s  a  more objective teacher.





Re-watch the Trucker Frank story and watch for the "point A to point B" themes:


So toady we were let in on Ray Van Der Laan's timeline/story/path/journey/..

as well as Trucker Frank's..

and them mine
and a class member (Jheanique..it was an honor to hear/see her story:

Click: Knowledge & Innovation: The Journey Is as Valuable as the Destination

Did you know Facebook is being redesigned around the concept of a person;s "TIMELINE"?


Why so you think that is?  Because the Facebook founders are addicted to change, and/or because they are picking up on a current in our culture?

Have they been studying Exodus?  (:
Info

• About Facebook Timeline.facebook.com/about/timeline
• How to Enable the New Facebook Timeline NOW
• Tell Your Story with Timeline

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A chart/map of the Hebrews wanderings are almost comica.
Why no straight line/path from A (Egypt) to B (Promised Land).
Why go through X?  Sidetrips?  Detours?

Compare terms:

Pligrimmage
Journey
Wander/wonder
path
treak
life/walk

What issues, relational and otherwise come up when a community in commuitas wanders together?

Wanderlust?

What issues arise when a people finally arrive at their:
-Destination
-Point B
-Goal

We'll pick up nest week with the  loaded Hebrew term:


be' ushim 
(hint: click here)




stay tuned..