Last night I went to the LIDO Cinema in Epsom to a movie fundraiser in support of pilgrims from Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish, Epsom. The film on show was “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. The story revolves around two men, Edward Cole (Nicholson) and Carter Chambers (Freeman), two men who met totally by chance as a result of illnesses suffered by the other.
Both men are diagnosed with terminal conditions and only have months to live. After coming to terms with their situation, the pair draw up a “Bucket List, a list of things that they would like to do before they both “kick the bucket”
The list included daredevil antics like sky diving and also the more abstract, such as “gazing upon something majestic”. The film labours through to the inevitable, Carter dies first and then at age 81 Edward Cole dies as well. In fulfilling their bucket list, the pair find out a lot about themselves and in a strange way about the faith (and lack thereof) that they possess.
Which brings me to today’s blog. The message which came through loud and clear for me was to live life fully! Part of the motto for the WYD NZ project is “Live Fully….Be Connected” Carter and Cole ‘connected’, mutually invigorating life for the other. Why wait till we’re told that our years are now months for us to start living”
Jesus came so that we may have “life to the full” (John 10:10). The fullness of life is so fundamentally dependant on the quality of our connectedness; to God; to creation and to each other. Carter and Cole eventually found the fullness of life – to love and to be loved but it took them their whole lives to find that out.
Both men are diagnosed with terminal conditions and only have months to live. After coming to terms with their situation, the pair draw up a “Bucket List, a list of things that they would like to do before they both “kick the bucket”
The list included daredevil antics like sky diving and also the more abstract, such as “gazing upon something majestic”. The film labours through to the inevitable, Carter dies first and then at age 81 Edward Cole dies as well. In fulfilling their bucket list, the pair find out a lot about themselves and in a strange way about the faith (and lack thereof) that they possess.
Which brings me to today’s blog. The message which came through loud and clear for me was to live life fully! Part of the motto for the WYD NZ project is “Live Fully….Be Connected” Carter and Cole ‘connected’, mutually invigorating life for the other. Why wait till we’re told that our years are now months for us to start living”
Jesus came so that we may have “life to the full” (John 10:10). The fullness of life is so fundamentally dependant on the quality of our connectedness; to God; to creation and to each other. Carter and Cole eventually found the fullness of life – to love and to be loved but it took them their whole lives to find that out.
The Kaitaia Milk truck has a bumper sticker that says, “Those who seek God at the eleventh hour run the risk of dying at 10.30!” Don’t leave it too late. Write your bucket list and get to it!
"His Eminince meets me for the second time!"
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