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What about Bob?

Last night I was quite surprised by the movie “What about Bob.” I am sure a lot more theological points can be grasped by this movie but one hit me right between the eyes.

I don’t intend to summarize the movie. A summary can be found Here

Basically Bob is portrayed as the deranged clingy man that harasses his psychiatrist to the point of finding him on vacation. His psychiatrist pushes him off while his psychiatrist’s family loves him and sorta lets him be part of the family. In the end Bob marries his psychiatrists sister and his psychiatrist is left crazy.

Okay…how many people have friends or so called friends they just want to go away because they are “that guy”. You know what I’m talking about, don’t pretend you don’t. If by some chance you havn’t been blessed by this situation please let you know I have some people I would like you to meet.

Anyway…

I have been challenged a lot in this over the past year. As a Christian I am called to love others but what if a person is just too hard to love? What if that person breaks all of the social norms I am used to and I don’t want to been seen in public with them.

There are people in everyone’s life that annoy the heck out of them. They have abrasive personalities. But why? Is it Fuel for the fire that they don’t have friends or people to interact with that don’t cut them short of condemn them?

I like in the movie how the family accepts Bob and kinda cures him. I’m just trying to raise the question of what if we did the same thing? Hung out with the akward people more often. Ya never know. Maybe they will end up married to our sisters…most likely it will be really challenging but rewarding. Anyway. That’s what I thought about when I saw What about Bob?.

posted by Kerry at 1:19 PM