Be Real (62 of 66)
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
1 John
In the fall of 2011, ABC-TV premiered a fantasy drama titled, Once Upon a Time. The setting is the fictional town of Storybrooke, Maine. The residents are fairy tales characters who time-traveled to Storybrooke, but they were robbed of their memories.
In other words, they live in Storeybrooke with new identities. The Evil Queen is the town Mayor, Snow White is a fourth grade school teacher, Prince Charming is a comatose hospital patient, their infant daughter is now (28-years-old), and Rumpelstiltskin runs the local pawn shop.
In six seasons, there have been dozens of characters, from Robin Hood to the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts; from Tinker Bell to Ariel to Red Riding Hood; from Pinocchio to Captain Cook to Repunzel. Each week one character after another discovers his real ID!
I watched that series for two seasons before I got lost! The characters played multiple roles, they lived in multiple time-dimensions, they traveled through a portal they couldn't control and I couldn't remember who was related to whom!
After two exciting but confusing seasons I needed a heavy dose of reality! The search for something real isn't new with us. In fact, it's as old as Adam and Eve. Man has looked for reality and satisfaction in wealth, thrills, conquests, romance, education and even religion.
There's nothing wrong with any of these experiences as long as we recognize that they are temporary diversion. An experience doesn't satisfy over the long haul. That solar eclipse that passed through on Monday was anticipated for 99 years, but it only lasted for 90 seconds and 90% of us missed it in Crawfordsville because of the simultaneous thunderstorm!
Wanting something real - and finding something real are two, altogether different things! It's like eating cotton candy at Golden Coral: you bite into it thinking it's real, only to end up with a mouthful of nothing. We ...
Series: Route 66: A Road Trip Through the Bible
Tony Thomas
1 John
In the fall of 2011, ABC-TV premiered a fantasy drama titled, Once Upon a Time. The setting is the fictional town of Storybrooke, Maine. The residents are fairy tales characters who time-traveled to Storybrooke, but they were robbed of their memories.
In other words, they live in Storeybrooke with new identities. The Evil Queen is the town Mayor, Snow White is a fourth grade school teacher, Prince Charming is a comatose hospital patient, their infant daughter is now (28-years-old), and Rumpelstiltskin runs the local pawn shop.
In six seasons, there have been dozens of characters, from Robin Hood to the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts; from Tinker Bell to Ariel to Red Riding Hood; from Pinocchio to Captain Cook to Repunzel. Each week one character after another discovers his real ID!
I watched that series for two seasons before I got lost! The characters played multiple roles, they lived in multiple time-dimensions, they traveled through a portal they couldn't control and I couldn't remember who was related to whom!
After two exciting but confusing seasons I needed a heavy dose of reality! The search for something real isn't new with us. In fact, it's as old as Adam and Eve. Man has looked for reality and satisfaction in wealth, thrills, conquests, romance, education and even religion.
There's nothing wrong with any of these experiences as long as we recognize that they are temporary diversion. An experience doesn't satisfy over the long haul. That solar eclipse that passed through on Monday was anticipated for 99 years, but it only lasted for 90 seconds and 90% of us missed it in Crawfordsville because of the simultaneous thunderstorm!
Wanting something real - and finding something real are two, altogether different things! It's like eating cotton candy at Golden Coral: you bite into it thinking it's real, only to end up with a mouthful of nothing. We ...
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