Acting Lessons

We just started week two of rehearsals for the Abilene Summer Shakespeare Festival production of Julius Caesar. Let me tell ya, acting is tough. You have to become a whole new person, or in my case two new people, who you most likely have never met. Then you have to take a text and put bones and muscle and flesh to it. It is enacting the encarnation. Words on a page become living breathing people and situations when acted. In this way the Christian is called to become an actor by taking the text of the gospel and putting flesh and bones on it and living it out so that people can see it.