Do watch the extras included in DVDs of movies? I discovered there is an angel in the film, Love Actually; why the bluesmobile in Blues Brothers was so special and some deep theology behind the light comedy Bruce Almighty
Deleted scenes are those scenes removed from a film due to time constraints, a desire to simplify the plot, or other reasons. They were part of the story in the beginning but didn't end up in the narrative shared with the public. Sometimes, like in the case of Dogma, viewing them plugs a gaping hole in the plot. (Why did God suddenly come in to save creation only at the last moment and why was the hero wounded before the final fight scene? Only a deleted scene gives you the answer.)
What are the deleted scenes in your life or the life of those around you? The part of their stories that would explain how we got where we are, even how we became who we are. Who do we share the scenes in our lives that are not on public view but which explain puzzles in the plots of our lives? I hope you have some folks around you who you can share the extras with. I hope church is a place to find folks who are interested in more the edited for the public release.
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(When Job in the Bible questioned God about the plot of creation, God reminded Job about the scenes he missed in the creation of the universe. Some of the listing of the deleted scenes is included below. The image is William Blake's 1825 engraving of God answering Job out of the whirlwind.)
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Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footings set, or who laid its cornerstone-while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy?
Who shut up the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, when I made the clouds its garment and wrapped it in thick darkness, when I fixed limits for it and set its doors and bars in place, when I said, 'This far you may come and no farther; here is where your proud waves halt'? - Job 38:4-11 (NIV)
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