All the World's a Stage

My daughter Becca has a part in her school’s Spring musical. The musical is ‘Beauty and the Beast” and she is both a village person (not to be confused with the Village People) and a dancing plate. It is a bit part although she does have a single line. “He is always good for a laugh.” If you go, do not miss that line. It is sweet. I went to opening night. It was maybe 15 minutes into the play when Becca came on stage the first time. She has a dazzling smile and she had upped the wattage for the occasion. I watched her and only her the whole time she was on stage. I do not know what happened in the rest of the play or what all of them were doing out there with “the smile.” I was enthralled with my own daughter. As far as I was concerned, the star was the plate whose smile melted my heart. It made me wonder how God feels toward me. When I tell people over and over again that God loves you more deeply than you can imagine, is that the way it is? If Jesus was in a play, I have to believe God the Father would be straining to see His son, and when he saw Him, I can imagine Him nudging those around him and saying, “That one is mine. He is really something isn’t he?” And the scripture says that when God looks at me he looks at me as if I was Jesus. I am adopted. He has chosen me. So, amazingly enough, I think the way I felt toward Becca opening night is the way the God of the universe felt toward you today. When Shakespeare said, “all the world is a stage,” I don’t think he even had a clue as to what that could really mean.