Can You Take It With You?

You gotta love the oldie but goody movies!  I walked in on "You Can't Take It With You," the 1938 Frank Capra classic--and I immediately was struck by the fact that--somebody had to actually think through and develop an meaningful plot that made its point without being a smorgasbord of special effects.  The characters carry the day!  And how well the young Jimmy Stewart and the older Lionel Barrymore to name just a few really did just that.  As the audience, I had to watch the characters develop through their behavior rather than the manipulation of lighting, effects--and to make it rhyme--sex! 

Maybe the movie makes its point about the real values, the intangibles that cannot be bought.  Sure...I get it...after all, we can't take it with us.  But that only surfaces the real question of what truly matters.  At the heart of all human relationship lies the pearl of great price--the one Jesus spoke of--that once found, sell everything for it.  Through the human heart, no matter how crucified and scarred--we find our way into the Kingdom that God waits to give us. And, you CAN take it with you!