Tina Fey & Robert Downey Jr presented an Oscar together at the Academy Awards last Sunday night. They bantered back and forth, as all good presenters do, for the requisite 45 seconds. And usually that stuff is pointless & inane, but I think I learned something about my relationship with God during their time on stage. No, seriously, I did.
Tina Fey has become a media mogul, in case you didn't already know. She has the midas touch in tv right now (i.e. 30 Rock and single-handedly resurrecting Alec Baldwin's career). And then you've got Bob Downey. This guy is on top of the acting world with flicks like Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes. Both spoke from their perspective; Tina as a director/producer and RD Jr as an actor.
Tina's stance was that a director just wants an actor to say their lines & hit their mark. That's it. The script is good already...you can't make it better. Bobby insisted that an actor needs to have an artistic license to "interpret" the scene or script as he/she wants to. Evidently this is a common struggle on a movie/tv set.
Their dialog made sense to me because I think the same banter happens between God and me. God is like Spielberg, Scorsese & Hitchcock rolled into one. And I'm like Tim McGraw in Blindside. Just bad. And I'm trying to convince him that we should change this or tweak that when God has written and is now directing the perfect story and script. I'm learning that all I need to do is hit my mark & read my lines.
So, I'm going to leave my ego and artistic license at the door (or at least in my trailer with my Pellegrino and caviar). You should consider doing the same. Our stories might turn out to be a lot better if we do.
"...yet not my will, but yours be done." (Luke 22.42)
