PRECIOUS: YEAH!!!!

This evening I am rehearsing Precious in my mind, the movie, the nuances, the feeling, the characters, the precious girls of the world who are and have been brutually molested. I am here, over and again in my mind, over and again.

And I simply need to say thank you--Sapphire, Lee Daniels, Monique, Paula Paton, Gabbie Gabourey 'Gabby' Sidibe, and the other dancers of this movie. Precious is, indeed, a dance. A dance into the pain of abuse, the dance of survival, the dance of triumph. This movie is an opening to a conversation.

There are many, many feet, dancing through the planet that have been abused and they have not had a voice. When Precious says I feel "here," on what seems to be her first day of school at Each one Teach One, I felt "here" for her. I felt HERE.

Please go and experience Precious. It does not need my language to express how it articulates a very real dance. It does not need my language; it is :"here." It only needs my language to say on my marquee this evening: Go see this movie. If you are going healthy by attempting to find a way to always live better, Precious is "here," and it is a gift to every child who has ever suffered abuse. It is "here"; it is the destructive voice of every abuser. It is "here"; it is lessons learned; prayers that need to be prayed. It is "here." Precious is the spiritual holler that needs to be heard. It is, the jazz dance, pushing its way into survival. Dance with this movie; you will yearn to change. You will be compelled to pray for the enemy who abuses children; you will be changed. You will sing that song "Lord, change my name." You will want to be good because goodness that urges goodness in the world.

I imagine God speaking through the author, Sapphire; I imagine God directing the director. God's presence is in the characters. Precious is a gift: Receive it.


I am thankful for the art.