This evening our theme is counting the cost. Some of you might already have started to do that in the run up to Christmas. You might have started budgeting for it in Jan. You might be one of those people who puts a little bit of money away every month so come this time of year you know how much you have or haven’t.
If your house was on fire who or what would you rescue first?
Who shows you the most love?
How do you know?
Fave cake?
Notting Hill Film Clip
I know you have seen this quite recently, I didn’t realize until today as I was telling Claire what we were doing this evening. My apologies but I want to draw out a very different issue than David did.
A group of people are gathered round a table, including a very famous actress, Anna Scott played by Julia Roberts her boyfriend, William, played by Hugh Grant and his friends including his sister, Honey.
Anyone deserve the last Brownie?
Are you the saddest act here?
It is interesting as they go around the 6 people sitting at the table they share something of themselves. In fact it becomes something of a competition. It is quite an intimate occasion and 5 out of the 6 people know each other well. They are all comfortable sharing if they are the saddest act. They are have all shared apart from Ann, the film star and they all assume that she could not possibly be the saddest act. She is rich famous, and supposedly has it all, but in the intimacy of that shared meal, where she feels safe she tells a different story.
You see no matter how sad you think you are, and lets face it there are times when most of us think we are the saddest act around. In fact some us spend a lot of time making it a competition to be the saddest act around. God the Father says you can have the brownie, not because you are the saddest act, but because I know you, because I know you better than you know yourself. You might think you are the saddest act around yet in my eyes you are wonderfully made.
13Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother’s womb.
14I thank you, High God—you’re breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration—what a creation!
15You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
16Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
Psalm 139 13-16
There will always be brownie for you in God’s eyes.