01-07-2004, 09:26 AM
GOD'S BEEN KNOWN TO NIGGLE ------
by Max Lucado
EVERYONE LOVES WHAT Deborah Ricketts does. But nobody loves it while sheÂ’s doing it. Everyone loves the product, but no one enjoys the process.
She is an independent researcher for the film industry. Do you want your movie to be accurate? Want your facts to be reliable? Send a script and a check to this former librarian and watch the facts begin to fly.
A film set in the thirties needs everything to look like the thirties.
You canÂ’t have a person reading from a newspaper that didnÂ’t exist back then or a band playing a song that wasnÂ’t yet written. Such mistakes occur.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark the map that charted Indiana JonesÂ’s flight routed him over Thailand. Problem: The movie was set in 1936. Thailand was called Siam until 1939.
In Die Hard II Bruce Willis makes a phone call from what is supposed to be a Dulles Airport pay phone in Washington, D.C. No one noticed that the phone booth read Pacific Bell.
Deborah Ricketts lives to find these errors. She is on a scavenger hunt for flubs. She winds her way into props and sets and examines everything. Other peopleÂ’s oversights are her undertakings._
She niggles for the scriptwriterÂ’s own good. The process is not
pleasant, but the result is rewarding.
God has been known to niggle a few times, too. It’s not that God loves to find fault. It’s just that God loves to find anything that impedes our growth. Jesus portrays him as the Good Gardener who cuts and trims the vine. “I am the true vine; my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit. And he trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even
more fruit†(John 15:1–3).
Deborah Rickets studies a script and offers: “ItÂ’s good, but here are some ways to make it better.Ââ€
I doubt if itÂ’s easy for a scriptwriter to turn his manuscript over to
someone like Deborah Rickets. He knows sheÂ’s on the hunt for errors. But he also knows the end result will be a better story.
ItÂ’s certainly not easy for us to turn our lives over to the Gardener. Even now, some of you are hearing the snip-snip-snip of his shears. It hurts. But take heart. YouÂ’ll be better as a result.
Besides, arenÂ’t you glad he thinks you are worth the effort?
by Max Lucado
EVERYONE LOVES WHAT Deborah Ricketts does. But nobody loves it while sheÂ’s doing it. Everyone loves the product, but no one enjoys the process.
She is an independent researcher for the film industry. Do you want your movie to be accurate? Want your facts to be reliable? Send a script and a check to this former librarian and watch the facts begin to fly.
A film set in the thirties needs everything to look like the thirties.
You canÂ’t have a person reading from a newspaper that didnÂ’t exist back then or a band playing a song that wasnÂ’t yet written. Such mistakes occur.
In Raiders of the Lost Ark the map that charted Indiana JonesÂ’s flight routed him over Thailand. Problem: The movie was set in 1936. Thailand was called Siam until 1939.
In Die Hard II Bruce Willis makes a phone call from what is supposed to be a Dulles Airport pay phone in Washington, D.C. No one noticed that the phone booth read Pacific Bell.
Deborah Ricketts lives to find these errors. She is on a scavenger hunt for flubs. She winds her way into props and sets and examines everything. Other peopleÂ’s oversights are her undertakings._
She niggles for the scriptwriterÂ’s own good. The process is not
pleasant, but the result is rewarding.
God has been known to niggle a few times, too. It’s not that God loves to find fault. It’s just that God loves to find anything that impedes our growth. Jesus portrays him as the Good Gardener who cuts and trims the vine. “I am the true vine; my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch of mine that does not produce fruit. And he trims and cleans every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even
more fruit†(John 15:1–3).
Deborah Rickets studies a script and offers: “ItÂ’s good, but here are some ways to make it better.Ââ€
I doubt if itÂ’s easy for a scriptwriter to turn his manuscript over to
someone like Deborah Rickets. He knows sheÂ’s on the hunt for errors. But he also knows the end result will be a better story.
ItÂ’s certainly not easy for us to turn our lives over to the Gardener. Even now, some of you are hearing the snip-snip-snip of his shears. It hurts. But take heart. YouÂ’ll be better as a result.
Besides, arenÂ’t you glad he thinks you are worth the effort?
