A Conversation with a writer

This last Monday night, I had a first. I was joined a friend of mine who is employed as a movie critic. He invited me to preview with him the new nativity movie. As part of his research, he had the privilege to interview the script writer for this movie. Mike Rich lives in Portland and for a contest wrote the script for "Finding Forrester". Since then Rich has penned "The Rookie", "Radio" and is the un-credited writer of "Miracle on Ice." Even though the interview was short in time, I thought the interacbetweenetwen the two was interesting . .Here here is a couple of the questions and answers.

Q: What do you want people talking about in the lobby after they see "The Nativity?"
A: I want them to really appreciate the faith of these two people (Mary & Joseph) because when we tell the story we don't think about the consequences of some of their decisions.

Q: How difficult is it to write dialogue for the mother of the savior of the world?
A: It's the biggest challenge in the world. She is such an iconic character. I had to choose each word with such great care because one wrong sentence, one slip-up and the whole character can be compromised. And if her character is compromised then the whole movie is compromised.

It seems like Rich is writing gave great thought to the importent individuals in the story of Christ. My question is, what can we learn from them. Did they know the story coming Messiah, did they know of his planned entrance to earth (I think they did!). Did they really know the personal impact of their selection in of being the father and mother of Jesus (if not, they would learn all to soon. Would they have the words to train him during his early years (if they didn't, God would grant them the words)

My prayer is that you would take time this week to concider these two and how you can gain strenght from them.

Have an awesome day

David