misunderstanding. Hot feelings. Short fuses. By the time we
made it through our final wrap on the film set, we were
exhausted, not just physically but relationally.
OK, freeze here. Get this picture of what was happening in
our family at the time and how it contrasted with the message
of the movie we were involved in portraying. Can’t you see the
enemy’s strategy at work? Of course he would want to turn up
the background noise to try complicating the work we were
doing in expressing God’s truth for a global audience. Of
course he would want, if possible, to water down this important
message by dismantling the relationships of the people
participating in it—just as we’d been told to expect.
So since we knew who was behind the tension, we made the
deliberate choice to stop fighting with each other and to fight
instead with that doggoned enemy. We vigilantly asked God to
make our marriage and family (and the families of all those
involved in the film) bulletproof against these incessant
attacks.
Too much was at stake. It was a big deal.