I love classic movies. The old sci-fi and horror movies are great fun. It's hard to remember at times when I'm watching one where I can see the zipper on the creature costume that this was not intended to be cute or amusing. The film makers were seriously doing their best to portray a creature beyond the special effects techniques and or their resources could afford at the time. Even in today's movies there are times when something is just off enough that the CGI screams out, "Look at me I'm fake and pretend!" It breaks the spell of fantasy and brings us back to the reality that this is fiction.
For too much of my life I lived as though I were God, at least as though I were Lord of my own life. I thought I pulled it off most times and looked pretty good doing it. But the sad truth is that not only did my God suit not fit, but everyone around me could see the zipper. It was ridiculous and sad that I could suspend my own disbelief enough to think that I came across as realistic. There is a God, and I am not Him. Neither are you. And our God suits don't fool anyone but ourselves. Today let's let God be God and we be His servants.
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