The Energy of Together

“Tell me your top three favorite movies, and I will give you your life message.” That statement from Christian author and educator, James Rubart, sounded like magic to me. So, I decided to give his simple exercise a shot. It only took me about 15 minutes in total – it was magic! My favorite movies? Easy. I have four, being an over-achiever—Sound of Music, The Upside, Pretty Woman, and Patch Adams. 

As I analyzed my other favorite movies, I found they all have unexpected, powerful transformations when two or more people come together. As the scenes played in my mind and I jotted notes on paper, my life message jumped off the page and onto my face with a big smile. I am all about the energy that happens with “together.” I’ve seen this play out in so many ways in my life. Most recently, “together” has taken on a new meaning as I continued this new calling and adventure of becoming an author. I have spent seven years attempting to write and rewrite this book unsuccessfully. Then I found a writer’s group called American Christian Fiction Writers (ACFW) and met another new author, Janette Johnson Melson, both of us at our first ACFW Conference. We bonded over several similar experiences and found an immediate friendship and comfort with each other. We are both from Atlanta, so when the next conference was Covid-virtual, I suggested we rent a VRBO so we could be – you guessed it – together. This is where the magic life message class happened, and I got to share my excitement with her in person.

How about you? Do you have any stories about the energy of being together? What about your favorite movies and life message? Please share them in the comments below.