Waiting to Exhale

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The Text This Week:

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

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Cinema in Focus, a social and spiritual commentary by Hal Conklin and Denny Wayman.

Themes

Sabbath

This movie is based on terry mcmillan's novel about four african american women waiting for �true love� to find them; waiting to enter a relationship of commitment and nurture where they could let their guard down, where they would be valued for who they are. a place just �to be.� a place to be sheltered and cherished. mcmillan describes this state of painful anticipation as �waiting to exhale". it's a fitting description, it seems to me, of the way we live our lives these days: no down time, 24/7, always "on", always striving, secretly yearning for that place of nurture, safety and refreshment already offered to us by God -- one we'd do well to reclaim by rediscovering the gift of the sabbath. (Meg Queior, Richmond, Maine)

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