Ed Dobson and the production team at Flannel are creating a series of short films chronicling Ed's fight with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Ed has been a pastor and an author, yet he is surprisingly candid about his feelings as he faces death. I constantly feel that when religion collides with real life issues we have a tendency to wrap them up in neat little packages so it "makes sense" to us. Ed doesn't do that. His honesty in these films is compelling. He has a peace and gentle wisdom about his life and life in general.
He says the most wonderful thing at the end of Consider the Birds, where he recalls watching his son go off to war in the midst of his sickness.
"When you're worried about the future it's hard to find God. When you're living in the moment he's right there with you." -Ed Dobson
There is a great Q&A with Scott McClellan on the Collide Magazine Blog. You can view the first film, It Ain't Over, at edsstory.com. The first five films are available now.
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