What Little Miss Sunshine taught me about Church
Marcel Proust is someone I know nothing about. I feel like I should because he is acclaimed to be a rather well known author who wrote about memory in a seven part series, entitled Remembrance of Things Past.
In fact the extent of my knowledge of Proust is what I learned from Steve Carell's character in Little Miss Sunshine.
With that said, I encountered this line from Proust not too long ago about memory:
"(Memory) would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being".
Each week the Church gathers together for a number of things, but in part to remember.
When we remember the Story of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, we are given once again a rope to draw us up out the the abyss of not-being. Each week we come together to discover again, for the first time, what it means to be a "being".
While it is an interesting story, it would be hellish to never have a memory. Movies like 50 First Dates or Memento are great to watch but I would not wish my enemy into that state of memory limbo. Amnesia is a horrible thing to witness and if you do not believe me just ask anyone who has witnessed a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Or just ask Clive.
The Church comes together each week to stave off group amnesia or collective Alzheimer's. We remember and we are pulled from that abyss. We remember and we are once again home. We remember and we are no longer alone. We remember and we are found.
In fact the extent of my knowledge of Proust is what I learned from Steve Carell's character in Little Miss Sunshine.
With that said, I encountered this line from Proust not too long ago about memory:
"(Memory) would come like a rope let down from heaven to draw me up out of the abyss of not-being".
Each week the Church gathers together for a number of things, but in part to remember.
When we remember the Story of God in Christ through the Holy Spirit, we are given once again a rope to draw us up out the the abyss of not-being. Each week we come together to discover again, for the first time, what it means to be a "being".
While it is an interesting story, it would be hellish to never have a memory. Movies like 50 First Dates or Memento are great to watch but I would not wish my enemy into that state of memory limbo. Amnesia is a horrible thing to witness and if you do not believe me just ask anyone who has witnessed a loved one suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Or just ask Clive.
The Church comes together each week to stave off group amnesia or collective Alzheimer's. We remember and we are pulled from that abyss. We remember and we are once again home. We remember and we are no longer alone. We remember and we are found.
