Tim Basselin - October 22, 2017
What Lament Looks Like
We avoid pain and grief as much as possible. When faced with someone else's grief, we avoid or offer platitudes. But the book of Lamentations invites us to sit with grief, to enter into the prophetic process of Lament. In this series, we'll explore how to grieve and how to be a friend to the grieving. Ultimately, we'll see how the process of lament invites us to be agents of healing in the larger world.
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Have you have seen The Devil Wears Prada? I had heard for years that it’s great, but only sat down to watch it in the last couple of years, and it turns out, everyone was right.
One of my favorite things about the movie is how the main character, Andy, follows all the basic beats of the classic hero’s journey. Believe it or not, you can map her journey and Luke Skywalker’s on the same timeline and they line up perfectly.
That’s interesting because of who Andy is – at the beginning of the film, she’s a woman who doesn’t choose. She’s swept along – that’s how she ends up working at a fashion magazine even though she doesn’t know anything about fashion.
And the point of the movie isn’t for Andy to become a better dresser – it’s for her to have agency. In the words of the clip we just watched, she needs to become the person choosing the clothes, not having the clothes chosen for her.
Clothes represent agency for Andy.
I don’t really want to talk about clothes; I want to talk about agency. Specifically spiritual agency.
Like Andy, we’re all living in stories, whether we recognize it or not. And when we don’t understand the stories that shape us, it means we’re not truly free to live as God called us to be.
