Last weekend one of the most anticipated movies of the year came out: Avenger Endgame. First off – no spoilers here! I haven’t even seen the movie yet. But we are huge Marvel Comic Universe fans here at my house. If you want to have a discussion about Venom, Carnage, and Riot and which would win in a fight I am your girl. But that isn’t what I want to talk about.
This Marvel Universe has been evolving for 11 years starting with Iron Man. There are at least 22 movies with I am not sure how many TV shows in the saga.
Some have done better than others at the box office.
Some were released and then disappeared. I am looking at you Fantastic Four. (Although I do love you.)
Some have done better than others.
Some taught us about more than just super heroes.
The creators have been working on these movies for years. What if they had given up when it got hard? What if they gave up when one of the movies did bad? What if they stopped because some people didn’t like the way they portrayed a character?
We wouldn’t have these movies and the enjoyment they bring into our lives. What if I had given up when the anxiety got bad? What if I quit trying because it hurt too much? What if I just stopped because someone didn’t like the way I did my job? What if you stopped.
Sometimes life is hard and we are thrown every painful thing we can imagine. All we want to do is curl up in a ball and forget the world exists. If we do that though we miss the big ending we miss the Endgame. We miss the point when we break all of the records. We miss the point where it doesn’t hurt so much. We miss all of the good things that came out of the bad. We miss the people and relationships we could have had.
I want to know what is your Endgame? What is the thing that you had to overcome to get the point where you are today? As weird as it seems I am grateful for the anxiety. I have become a stronger woman, more compassionate and loving, more willing to give others the support they need than if I hadn’t gone through it. This is my Endgame!
Just finished reading “One Tattered Angel” again. At one point Blaine Yorgason meets a young man in the hospital with “limitations” and asks it he wishes he did not have limitations. He said, ” If I didn’t have limitations it would make it much harder for me to be Jesus’ friend. Hurting does help me. It helps me to feel like Jesus felt when He hurt. If Jesus didn’t hurt a whole bunch more than me he couldn’t be my Savior.”
I think we all have “limitations” it is just how we view then and how we use or overcome them that makes a difference for ourselves and those we can touch.
That is so cute! It would make it much harder to be Jesus’ friend.