Description 

Main Point:  Sometimes it’s hard to see the point of life when we’re caught up in the routine of day-to-day living but there is hope.

Synopsis:

• The meaning of life is pondered by a thirty-something businessman who struggles  with discouragement as he gets dressed and commutes to work.
• Video opens with fast forward look traffic on busy highway as a visual superimposed on the screen states that “Generations comes and go but it makes no difference because history merely repeats itself”.
• In a bedroom, the businessman begins his day by turning off the alarm at 6:30 and as he dresses, a narrator who serves as the man’s inner voice questions the meaning of waking up everyday to the same routine.
• As the man waits for his commuter train, the questioning continues – if life only a cycle of short-term accomplishments? Once on the train, as he looks out the window and sees the scenery quickly pass by is a great metaphor of his dilemma.
• On screen, words are superimposed: “Everything is weary and tiresome. Is there really no hope?” 
• As the walks on a busy street, he conveys that we yearn for something deeper –suddenly he has an epiphany as he looks at his wristwatch –momentarily stuck in his tracks. The sun hits the glass, and he questions, “What about light?” Would we recognize it without darkness? 
• The man quickly recounts his steps and his inner voice concludes that if life didn’t have meaning would be wonder about it. Finally, the man has resolved that life has meaning and hope and that he just needs to seek it.
• The video ends with a shot of the cross-walk sign where the man is walking: Hope Street
• Great visuals and use of fast forward movements. The video manages to quickly move ahead while deliberately taking time to think through the meaning of life.

Application:

• Universal application as this pictorial serves as every man’s journey at one time or another.
• God is with us as we question life’s meaning.
• C.S. Lewis said that Christianity is the thinking man’s religion – this serves as a great example of a man reasoning about his faith.

Suggested Uses:

• Sermon Starter for both the skeptic and follower of Christ.
• Also appropriate for discussions for people struggling with their faith or who are experiencing a crisis of faith.

Biblical Reference:

Come Let us reason together

Ecclesiastes

Runtime:	3:22
Genre:	Narration