steve says:
wots bruce almighty?

Matt says:
a film

Matt says:
Theres this bloke, and he goes down to a cookie store

and at the cookie store, theres a lady and a man, and the man likes to pick his nose

and the lady had recently had the environemental health people coming around,

and they said there were rat droppings.

and she said no they are chocolate chip cookies.

i mean chocolate chips,

so anyway they cleaned up the shop and they needed to attract more customers

so they decided to make the biggest cookie in the world.

And our friend Bruce, he's gone to the cookie store to report the story,

and interview the lady.

but after he's done the interview, he misses the meeting where they decide whether to put it on tv or not.

and they decide not to.

so he's not very happy.

but his wife thinks its a very good story. but he's still not happy. he wants a better job. he wants to be the 'anchorman' the one that says the news and stays inside and reads the autocue.

but his enemy at the news station, gets the job of being anchorman, while he is reporting from niagara falls

Bruce is very upset and tells the other guy what he thinks of him

so Bruce gets sacked.

and then he tries to help a homeless guy that's being bullied.

but he then gets beaten up too.

he starts to ask God why all this stuff's happening.

And God gives him a phone number and an address for him to contact him.

They get together, and Bruce gets the opportunity to have a go at being God for a while.

Bruce doesn't do a very good job.

But they all live happily ever after the end.

steve says:
what is the parable of the story?

Matt says:
That Gods doing a fine job, but he can't mess with people's will, and he cant force anyone to love him.

and that some of our prayers aren't good. We don't always need what we ask for.

And that there's nothing wrong with a bit of manual labor.

And Bruce is only interested in his career unless he is hit by a truck, which turns his priorities right around, so then he settles into his regular job.

Steve says:
interesting but what does the cookie represent?
Matt says:
"that's the way the cookie crumbles." that was his saying at the end of the news reports.

Maybe i didn't really get the deeper meaning.

steve says:
maybe the cookie represents his life. built up high and strong but yet it quite lacks its whole being and is missing its centre ingredient of a chocolate chip rich taste. In time because the cookie is happy where he is and does not self assess his own life or have vision. The cookie gradually is taken away and fades. smashed in time with other things and cramped out the cookie fades and the perfect circle cycle is smashed beyond repair. Yet only at the end does bruce realise this and through realising what was stolen from him does bruce redeem himself and it is as if a new circle has begun. he has a pathway set beck towards the route that God has sustained. The crumbling of the cookie is the same paul had on his vision and therefore bruce sees differently. Infact he becomes rededicated,rebirthed in God and ready to follow christ unto the end