Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
"And the one who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, for I
always do
what is pleasing to him."
He now enjoys speaking in schools and to homeless children. "I tell them that if you
stay
committed, your dreams can come true. I am living proof of it. I left home at seventeen
and had
nothing but rejection for twenty-five years. I wrote more than twenty screenplays, but I
never
quite."
I hope you will not quite. No matter how challenging your situation is. "God is with us."
(John 8:29
NRSV)
A young man named Michael Blake suffered through poverty while writing screenplays
that for
years were never accepted. He admits, "I slept on a lot of floors," as friends would let
him stay at
their homes. Then he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph
system, which
is currently in remission. But then he did something that would radically alter his life. He
wrote a
book that sold 30,000 copies. It was not a massive best seller, but Kevin Costner liked
it and
made the movie Dances with Wolves from it. Now the book has sold over 2 million
copies, and
Michael has won the Oscar for the movie adaptation.
Dear God, thank you for the promise that nothing can separate us from your love.
Amen.
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