Technicolor

My second day of my living my True Colors began again with a plunge into the aqua blue of the pool. I found an exception to my colorful food, and that is the white of some dairy. Oh well. True Colors look more intense and pleasing when contrasted with some neutrals. Other than that, the food colors were good. Lots more greens, oranges, reds of fruits and vegetables today.

I spent much of the day working on a sermon series based on the 1939 classic movie Wizard of Oz. As I poured over clips to the movie, I watched the transitions from the dusty sepia tones of tornado-ravaged Kansas, to the moment Dorothy opens the old farmhouse door on the intensely-saturated colors of Munchkin Land in the merry old land of Oz. Technicolor was progressing, and was later enhanced by modern digital processes.

Moving from the shadowy contrasts of blacks and grays and whites to vivid technicolor is what I'm hoping for in life right now. I feel as though I've been asleep or in a lethargic fog for a while...able to function alright...but dealing with life in the darks and lights of the sepia tones. I want to wake up and open my front door to a world of technicolor. In a black-and-white world, you may be able to see the Yellow Brick Road enough to follow it...but what would really be the point? It's just a whitish spiral on the ground. But, in Technicolor, it stands out. It invites us to journey, to adventure, to a hopeful fulfillment of our dreams and aspirations.

In past recent years, my life adopted the cyclone-swept tones of movie Kansas. It's time to rediscover and recreate the Technicolor!