Today Katie and I got to go to see Hugo at the Milk Money Movies at the Garden Theater in our little town. It was an amazing movie about life purpose. The quote that caught my heart was near the end. Hugo takes his friend Isabel to the top of the clock tower to show her the Paris skyline at night:Isabelle: I wonder what my purpose is.
Hugo Caberet: Right after my father died, I would come up here a lot. I'd imagine the whole world was one big machine. Machines never come with any extra parts, you know. They always come with the exact amount they need. So I figured if the entire world was one big machine... I couldn't be an extra part. I had to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason too....Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do... Maybe it's the same with people. If you lose your purpose... it's like you're broken.
They go on to talk about her Godfather and how he seems "broken" in that way and how much they would love to "fix" him.
Dreamscaping is not just about fulfilling your own dreams, it's also about helping others remember their dreams--to find out or remember what part of creation they were made to fulfil and help them do it. It reminds me of a description Paul often used for the church:
"4 For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 5 so in Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others."--Romans 12:4-5
Everyone needs to be needed. Everyone needs to receive too. How can you help others find their place this week?
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