What a feeling! I owe my college education to the movie Flashdance.  Seriously?  Yep.  Flashdance was one of those early great soundtrack movies where the music was as popular was as popular as the film itself.

For those of you on the younger side, yes, a decision to return to school was built upon a story of a Pittsburgh woman who was folding down two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer, but really wanted to get into ballet school. Go figure.  That movie just got to me. (What can say?  I’m complicated.)

Certainly, movies can inspire.  Look to Rocky, It’s a Wonderful Life, Hooisers, Dead Poets’ Society, or Shawshack Redemption, for instance. There is something more at work here than the context or the content of the story.  You walk away from those movies with a new pace to your step, you are encouraged. 

The French word for heart is coeur.  To en-cour-age is to en-heart-en.  The disciples felt that along the walk to Emmaus and they were not ready to let go of that feeling or experience.