Everyone has faced situations in life where things don't go according to plan. It can happen any time, any place and if we aren't prepared we can find ourself in an unfamiliar, embarrassing or even dangerous situation. We can't always have a "plan B" because that would mean we are thinking of a way out rather than concentrating on the task at hand.
But when the unexpected happens we find out what we're made of. At the Passion Play a week ago, Jesus was in the Temple healing the lame, giving sight to the blind man and raising the dead girl back to life when all of a sudden the sound track (including the recorded dialogue) stopped working and over 100 actors found themselves needing to find a way to keep the play moving forward. Cal, the Christ figure, kept speaking, the actors kept responding and the play proceeded with "live drama" to an outdoor audience which stretches nearly 100 yards from where the action takes place on the set. There were some anxious moments as the sound booth made backup plans and when Cal healed the lepers and then had the sound track return only to heal the lepers a second time, there were some chuckles, but also many sighs of relief. It was interesting to find out that in 47 years this "machine eating tape" situation had never occurred before.
Prior to the next performance, the situation was corrected, a new emergency plan was instituted and many of us with "speaking" parts in the play realized that we had been way too trusting of our equipment and needed to really know our parts, be prepared to wing it if the situation called for it and focus on the job at hand. It's different memorizing lines that we are speaking to an audience and lip-syncing lines off a recorded script. In both cases focus is essential, but in both situations the unexpected can jump up and bite us at any moment.
We never know what is coming our way in the next moment. My last post spoke to a similar point, and I guess there have been quite a few posts over the past 23 months which have had the same theme. We press on, hope for some predictability in life, but know that it's all in God's hands. We are asked to keep on the path, keep the faith and keep trusting God for the ultimate result. We should expect the unexpected, do the best we can when it happens and know that God is always with us and will see us through. And in all this we can be assured that the best is yet to come. Thank You, Lord
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