Do you know who Michael Kahn is? I didn't but I should have, especially as someone who loves lm and television as much as I do. In this award season, he's someone whose name we should all know, having been nominated now for more Academy awards than any other person in his profession. Michael Kahn is perhaps the most famous editor
in Hollywood, working on nearly every Steven Spielberg movie, including greats like Lincoln, Munich, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and Raiders of the Lost Ark. The reason we don't know his name is because we undervalue his craft. When it comes time for the award for editing, we all get up and grab another snack.
During the month of January, we have been re-claiming the art and the significance of a good edit across all of our Edenton Street tables as we consider what things we might all remove from our lives together in our current sermon series "I Quit." John Maxwell says that "you cannot overestimate the unimportance of nearly everything" and this is what a good editor knows. Only a few things are ultimately important in this life and if we don't continually edit our lives well, we'll lose track of those precious few things. Life will get crowded out by the noise of everything else that seems so important and we'll miss the moments and people that matter most.
This year I've decided that I'm going to quit hurrying - that God hasn't called me to live a life that leads to burn out. So, I've been slowing down lately and it's forcing me to become a better editor of my life and to honor the things that matter most, which of course are never things but always people. I hope you'll join me in quitting some things that we might all see the world and each other better.
Grace and peace,
Rev. Justin Morgan
