Comments on: The Wrestler

By: Ted Klontz

Ted Klontz — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:55:36 +0000

I know the drill. My son and daughter jokingly (I feel sad as I hear them say it) is for the first decade of theirlives all they saw was the back of myt head. Thought the facts aren’t that bad, the feeling was. Glad I have had some time to redeem myself.
I grew up with the message that “the best ting a father could could do for his famioy was to provide for them. I thought it meant money……

By: Bill Mayhall

Bill Mayhall — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:39:59 +0000

Ted- I, too, was deeply touched by “The Wrestler” – much for the same reasons that you were. Unfortunately,though, I identify strongly with Mickey O’Rourk’s character, in my ‘quest to be someone’ I participated in most of my life, and sacrificing family life in exchange. The comment that you received to your column was right on also. My true conversion came when I was in the hospital recently, and had time to look at my life, and rearrange my priorities. One book that I read while in the hospital in particularly, drove this point home even more clearly – Thomas Merton’s “New Seeds of Contemplation.”

By: Lon Aseltine

Lon Aseltine — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:42:28 +0000

Ted, I enjoyed your review of the wrestler movie. I have not seen it yet but your analysis regarding people in actuality are always trying to find a relationship with someone, and thus the reason why they indulge in whatever to try and find it. Our Biblical belief on that is that God created us to experience what’s called Zoe life, which is life in Christ. But as you stated people are always trying to find life in something or someone else and because of their created desire for Zoe life they eventually are never satisfied. However once they submit to the Life of Christ living through them they find Peace and Rest and of course all of their relationships take on a different look. Blessings on your day!