Wednesday, July 25, 2018

TIM Good morning, I’m Tim Wise, Senior Adult Minister and Sanctuary Choir Director at Central. I recently attended the Stage 2 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. If you aren’t familiar with Stage 2 and their work, I highly recommend you attend anything they produce! If you aren’t familiar with the musical, it is an entertaining, retelling of the story of Joseph. It is filled with campy songs and comedic staging, but it communicates the story of Joseph and the message of redemption quite well. To give you a VERY quick synopsis, Joseph has dreams that make his brothers angry, so they plot to rid themselves of him. They end up selling him into slavery and telling their father that he was killed by an animal. Joseph is then to Potiphar and then to Pharaoh. When Pharaoh begins to have strange dreams, he calls on Joseph to interpret his dreams. This pleases Pharaoh and he promotes Joseph to a position of power over Egypt. Eventually, his brothers come to Egypt to buy food during the famine and he recognizes them. Joseph eventually makes himself known to his brothers and offers them forgiveness for all they had done. In Genesis 50:20, Joseph is talking to his brothers following the death of their father and he says this: “You planned something bad for me, but God produced something good from it.” May you recognize that even when something bad happens or when someone plans something against you, God can make something good out of it.