PAY IT FORWARD

PAY IT FORWARD




ONE of my most favorite movies
Is a movie called
PAY IT FORWARD


It is a 2000 movie
BASED on the novel
Of the same name


It boasts a stellar cast INCUDING:
Helen Hunt-Kevin Spacey-Haley Joe Osment
and many other names you would recognize
Including Angie Dickinson


But it is the THEME of the movie
That hit me
RIGHT in the heart


Osment is a seventh grade student
In Las Vegas, Nevada
And his social studies teacher (Spacey)
GIVES the class an assignment
To devise and put into action


“A plan
That would change the world
For the better”


What a novel thought
DO SOMETHING KIND or good
For someone
Rather than
Rape, steal, defraud, etc., etc., etc., someone


“God saw
ALL that he made
and it was very good” Genesis 1:31


MY GOD
What has happened to
This world
BETWEEN then and now-
Some 2,000 years later


“TASTE AND SEE
That the Lord is GOOD
BLESSED is the man
Who takes refuge in him” Psalm 34:8


In the movie,
“PAY IT FORWARD,”
The teacher asks the students
(including Osment)
To do three favors
For others
Rather than paying the favor back


But the favor
Must be a “MAJOR FAVOR”
That the receiver
Can't complete themselves


And isn't that the way
Our own lives are
Without GOD'S FAVOR in it


We were CREATED
In GOD'S own image
And if God can bestow
Life, love, forgiveness, and kindness
On us


Isn't that
The LEAST that we can do
For someone else


“Then God said:
'Let us make man
In our image- in our likeness'” Genesis 1:26


“For you created
My inmost being
You knit me together
In my mother's womb


I PRAISE YOU
For I am wonderfully made
Your WORKS are wonderful
I know that full well” Psalm 139:13-14


Whatever goodness lies in you
Pass it on
PAY IT FORWARD


Use it
To help someone else


In the movie
Osment (Trevor)
DOES FAVORS for three people
Asking each of them
To pass it on


Initially-with mixed results
-And ultimately
Costing Trevor his very own life


But our lives
BY NATURE
Have a cost-death


The BEST that we can HOPE for
IS to have a LASTING EFFECT
By taking all the BLESSINGS
That we have
And passing them on


PAY IT FORWARD


Robert P. Wallman
10-25-13




ps misc. WITNESS 2-6-14


ON SITES 8-14-14 and 8-19-2019