Free Will

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It's a play. One single performance. The curtains opened for us, and here we are on a wooden stage waiting for the curtain call. The director sits in the back booth, headset on to stay connected to the faithful behind-the-scenes workers below. From His chair of power He calls out the cues. His timing is perfect. He wrote each musical number to correlate relationally with each character and prop. Cue light 4. He knows the beginning and the end, for He is author of both, so He carefully guides the stagehands and actors to His timing to make the performance fit together in perfection.

On the stage we are but hard-studied actors. We have been given a script to follow that tells us of the setting, dialogue, lines and blocking. We have memorized the story. We listen for the "go ahead" from the voice above whispered calmly through the headset of the stagehand. Cue Stephanie. Once we step onto the stage it is all on us. We should know the lines, we do know the blocking, and we even have the soft voice of The Director in our ear should we call out "line?" . But really-- we can do what we want now, ya? We can walk where we want, we can say what we want, we may even be led to believe these little contributions will make the production better! But do we realize that the play was already written and casted for perfection, and by choosing to go our own way we only tamper and sabotage with the grand finale? Is our pride in the spotlight worth the risk of an unrehearsed curtain call?