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Stayed up late last night because I had to get some laundry done. I watched Forrest Gump to help keep me awake. I had only ever seen it once before, and I hadn't remembered how beautiful a movie it is. I finished watching it this morning and left the apartment in a mild state of wonderment at, well, life. Life is so simple, yet so complicated. So beautiful though so hard. Is it destiny, or are we just floating along as if on a breeze? Maybe it's both. Then I got to thinking that it's a shame that such beautiful movies are divest of God. Yeah, Forrest believed he and his loved ones were going/went to heaven. He went to church and sang in the choir. Lieutenant Dan scoffed at God, but I wonder what he really thought in the end.

I'm driving to the church, thinking and praying, wondering while still believing that God's the source of it all, and a song starts going in my head. It's there a lot - one of those that you hear all the time in your head and in your heart. It's the song that frequently fills the silence. Anyway, it made me think of the comments the artist made before the song lyrics in the liner notes of the cd. I opened it up and saw that he had put down verses from this passage.

So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. [23] For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. [24] The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, [25] nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. [26] And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, [27] that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, [28] for

" 'In him we live and move and have our being';

as even some of your own poets have said,

" 'For we are indeed his offspring.'"

- Acts 17:22-28 (ESV)

The beauty in the world, the thing men and women seek, the good thing(s) they worship without necessarily knowing it, they can all lead to here. The unknown God. I wonder if Forrest Gump knew Him.