Nightmare on Elm Street

Do you like scary movies? You know the ones: Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Halloween, Jeepers Creepers, etc. I am not a scary movie fan. It's not that they scare me, they really bore me. There isn't a lot of suspense for me; you always know who is going to get it next. The "jock", who knows that seven people are already missing, will stand up and say, "I heard a noise. I'll go see what it was." Well, he's next.

I believe there are enough things in real life to scare us that I don't need someone's wild imagination helping. I have never been scared by horror movies. Well, there was that one time. I was watching the original Nightmare on Elm Street in a theater in Great Lakes, Illinois. The scene where Freddy Kruger cuts the mattress and pops up through the opening caused the lady sitting in front of me to stand up, let out a blood-curdling scream, and pass out cold as ice. I thought she was dead.

I was a trained military man. I jumped up, checked her pulse, asked for help. The movie was momentarily halted, EMT(s) were called to evaluate, everything was alright; she had just received a fright and passed out.
When the movie was over, I walked out of the theater looking around every corner, tiptoeing up to every stairwell, quietly moving down every hallway. The only time I have ever been frightened by a horror movie, and it wasn't the movie but the reaction of someone else.

Today's word comes from Psalm 16:8, NIV, which reads, "I keep my eyes always on the LORD. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken."

GOD is with me wherever I go, even at the theater in Great Lakes, Illinois. However, I had allowed what I could see to take my eyes off the fact that He was beside me. I have learned, though, that GOD is with me no matter where I am, no matter what is going on, no matter what may come. And, with Him at my side, there is nothing to fear. Yeah, in the movies, those creatures can be really terrifying but they don't scare me - GOD is standing right beside me. You do have to watch out for the ones that scream and pass out though, they can scare the bejeebies out of you.

Be Blessed,
Mickey T