EXILES:GARDENING IN THE STORM 1 Peter 3:8-22
This fall, my wife and I were searching through the channels looking for a
new show to watch. As I looked for a new show to watch, I found they just don't
make TV shows like they used to, do they? I'm not necessarily even
talking about "Leave it to Beaver" or "I Love Lucy."
I'm talking about my era. 1980's television, in my opinion, was
unparalleled in its excellence. 1980's saw Knight Rider: where David Hasselhoff
made it cool to have the hairy chest and to drive a car named KITT that talked
to you. Was that not wonderful?! He was followed by Magnum PI.
Thank you, Tom Selleck, for making the mustache cool. We had all of
these guys bridging the gap between society and new hair-dos. Second to
none, in the 1980's, was a show about a guy named Angus. You might know
him as MacGyver. Was there a better show in the 1980's?! I read
through the script of the pilot episode and I went Angus MacGyver, are you
kidding me?? Here's what we loved about MacGyver: if he had a
lighter, a paper clip and a roll of duct tape, he could get out of any
situation he found himself in, could he not? If he was in the darkest
dungeon, hand and feet strapped....it didn't matter. If he had a lighter,
a paper clip and a roll of duct tape, you knew he was getting out. Not
only that.....he was going to use all of this to make the people who were
holding him captive his prisoners! You always knew he was going to find a
way to use what he had to make the most of the things that mattered.
That's what MacGyver did. He took the resources that were
there....a lot of times they looked pretty scarce and pretty bleak and it
looked like how in the world was he going to get out of the situation. We
knew because there was another episode coming the next week that he was going
to get out. With the fear of sounding a little bit irreverent, I think
God's a little bit like MacGyver....without the mullet, of course.
