jpeka65844
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 10, 2005
So I weighed in a few weeks ago on "UP" being too sad and depressing for me to view on a regular basis.....
Yesterday was our founding pastor's last Sunday. He'd been at our church for the entire 25-year history of it! And it was retirement time......
His scripture was that of Moses standing on Mt. Pisgah looking over the promised land and being told by God that he would not reach it along with his people.
Jay took that a step further and revolved his sermon around Paradise Falls....Oy!!! Not a dry eye in the house. Throughout his sermon, he removed his stoles and robes and hung them on a coat rack with a blue balloon tied to it. He also showed clips of "UP" and likened them to the journey that our church has made over the past 25 years. It used the "Adventure Book" theme to show off pictures of various happenings over the years: baptisms, mission trips, construction, music programs, etc...At the conclusion of his sermon, it cut to the page at the end of the book where Ellie had written "It's been a great adventure; now go have another one! -Love Ellie" only he'd changed it somehow to read "Love, Jay"
Sobs!!!! Now I'll NEVER be able to watch this movie!!!! But amazing that it reverberated with him in such a different way; not the loss of spouse or life's regrets, but the closing of a chapter that was all about experiences and people!
Discuss....I think I have something in my eye........
Yesterday was our founding pastor's last Sunday. He'd been at our church for the entire 25-year history of it! And it was retirement time......
His scripture was that of Moses standing on Mt. Pisgah looking over the promised land and being told by God that he would not reach it along with his people.
Jay took that a step further and revolved his sermon around Paradise Falls....Oy!!! Not a dry eye in the house. Throughout his sermon, he removed his stoles and robes and hung them on a coat rack with a blue balloon tied to it. He also showed clips of "UP" and likened them to the journey that our church has made over the past 25 years. It used the "Adventure Book" theme to show off pictures of various happenings over the years: baptisms, mission trips, construction, music programs, etc...At the conclusion of his sermon, it cut to the page at the end of the book where Ellie had written "It's been a great adventure; now go have another one! -Love Ellie" only he'd changed it somehow to read "Love, Jay"
Sobs!!!! Now I'll NEVER be able to watch this movie!!!! But amazing that it reverberated with him in such a different way; not the loss of spouse or life's regrets, but the closing of a chapter that was all about experiences and people!
Discuss....I think I have something in my eye........