I’ve just been to the cinema for the first time in years – we often wait until films are available on DVD or Netflix. The film was entitled “Living” and starred Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood. It is a gentle film set in London during the early 1950s. Mr Williams (Bill Nighy) is a long serving office worker heading up one department at the LCC. He and the rest of his department spend their entire life shuffling paper from the in tray to the pending, and requests bounce between the various local government departments so that nothing gets resolved.
One request that appears to be in this never ending cycle is the request from three working class women who want to convert an old bomb site in a poor area of London into a children’s playground.
And so the same old boring existence goes on, until one day Mr Williams receives a terminal diagnosis from his doctor. Suddenly Mr Williams outlook on life changes.
I won’t give you the ending to the film, in case you want to watch it.
In our faith do we sometimes just keep on doing the same old things, never taking the risk to change?
Does it sometimes take the unexpected to cause us to re-examine our faith?
Do we see good things come from unexpected places, and do we thank God when they do?