Last night, after a series of great dinners with great friends, we watched
The Perfect Stranger, which is the ultimate great dinner! A cynical lawyer gets an invitation to dinner at her favorite restaurant with Jesus Christ, and He answers all of her questions, quite profoundly. I highly recommend it!
I posted about the dinners and the movie on social media, and almost immediately my friend Katie Lentz commented:
Rich! In The Perfect Stranger, Nikki is played by my friend Pamela! You met her when we saw you in Revelation. Cool connection!
I'll say it's a cool connection! I got to thinking about it, and when Pamela saw
Revelation she watched my character interact with Jesus. So, my mind kept going on this. I first saw
The Perfect Stranger in the Philippines while performing and teaching some workshops at Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, where I just found out our host for one of our dinners had taught a few years before I was there. The man playing Jesus with my character in
Revelation was played by a Filipino.
So I had a little whoah moment, but my brain kept noodling. That cool God wink wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been in
Revelation, which happened because I "happened" to be at the only combined gathering of
Mastermedia and
The Hang that I'm aware of. That was where I shared that I do
a 1-man play about The Revelation, and the producers later called to see if I'd perform the role of John in their Off-Broadway musical.
But Pamela wouldn't have seen
Revelation the Musical if Katie hadn't invited her, and Katie wouldn't be alive if it weren't for a series of extraordinary miracles after an extreme car wreck (
main miracles,
follow-up).
I wouldn't have seen
The Perfect Stranger in the Philippines if I hadn't met the folks who invited me to perform there while I was in Indiana, and I wouldn't have been there if I hadn't been invited to teach for one week... that turned into 16 years at the MasterWorks Festival. I wouldn't have been invited to teach for that week if I hadn't been a member of
Christians in Theatre Arts.
And you wouldn't be reading this if I wasn't pondering it hours before I'd planned on getting up for my last work day before
leaving town for seven weeks. I felt like the Lord wanted me to take the time to write this up. Maybe it was for you.
If you don't notice the profound things the Lord is doing all around you, I invite you to
have dinner with Jesus.
I write more about that at
www.RichDrama.com/MyPassion.
I play a lead in
Providence, which
you can bring to your area or
watch at home.
We'll open registration for the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp for 2020 in the fall. Sign up at www.RichDrama.com/Updates to get the announcement.
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