Interesting Movie

Mama Sue and I went, as we usually do on Friday, to see a movie. The title of the movie is Lakeview Terrace. It is the story of a young couple moving into an upscale California neighborhood. The couple's neighbor is a very angry man whose wife was killed in an auto accident three years ago. He's left with two children - a teenage girl who desperately needs a mother and a younger son. The guy is a cop with the LAPD and been on the force for 27 or so years. He mistreats people and is mistreated by the department. He doesn't like his new neighbors because he doesn't like anyone! He makes it difficult for his neighbors.

The young couple does not have children but she wants to get the family started and he doesn't. He is so self-centered that when she announces she's pregnant, he becomes very angry.
Anger and self-centeredness are huge sins in the lives of a lot of people. What we do with that anger and selfishness impacts all the people in our lives not to mention what it does to us.

The story sounds complicated to this point, right? Now add the fact that the angry cop is Samuel L. Jackson. His African-American wife was in a car with a white man in a place they should not have been when they were both killed in the auto accident. The young couple is a mixed race couple.

The movie pointed out for me how complicated our sins can become when we just take the simple sin and add extuenating circumstances and unusual conditions to the situation. I am reminded that I need to go to the root or the heart of my sin and start confessing there. Then keep confessing all the way out to my current reality.

So, how did the story change in your mind when you read that the race of the players were not all the same? Can you name the reaction?

God bless you!