Dead Man Walking~Mime behind the Mask

So in some study time I was thinking and studying about death. One thing that stuck out to me which relates so much to what the meaning of mime is and where it has came from is that in our christian walk we use death as a symbol for repentance of sin, the denial of self, or our flesh dying.

When you step into the character of a mime you step out of yourself and into an open vessel that has no identity. You are not you any more. The junk that you are made of is, doesn't exist. I guess you can argue if you know the mime then you still know who they are, but that part is irrelevant.

Anyways when you step into a mime role whether it is doing a praise song, a spontaneous funny mime in a park, or a skit for children church. You help the audience to perceive you as what ever they connect the emotion with. For them it maybe a certain person, a emotion, or feeling that is hard of them to express. For example,if you are portraying that you are carrying a burden of some kind, the burden one person carries is different from the next person, so they (the audience) decide what that burden means to them.

The more death that God smells the closer he can come.

Depth of your repentance will determine the height of your revival~ Frank Bartleman

God cannot come close to living flesh(wordly attitudes, fleshly desires, shelfishness, etc) because it reeks of the world. Death(denial of self) = closeness with the creator.

Only dead men see God's face so when you go behind that veil (Mime Mask) you have to say I'm really not alive anymore I'm a walking dead man. I die to what I want and my shelfish desires and I am an open vessel for God to use how he pleases.

Dead Man walking is a term that death row uses when a inmate is spending his last moments on earth before he goes into the death chamber. As that inmates walks down that long row of cells and all the men are in silence, they remember his life for a few moments, his past and all the junk pain and bad mistakes that he has gone through. Then the door opens and as he walks in and the door closes behind him, the ones left on the outside know that he is never comming back.

Its like when you put on the mime makeup you essentially close the door to your self, your past, your faults, hurts, pain, sin, anything you done, dosent exist anymore because you have choose to die, unlike the inmate who was sentenced to it.

Their is power in the choosing to be a Dead Man Walking. (that applies not only to Mime, but to every day life as a christian)

John 3:30 he must increase, but I must decrease

Our First Meeting

The first meeting went really well. We only had a few but others had some other obligations. But if you plan on being part of the Called to Silence Mime Ministry then please contact me and come to the next meeting Monday January 12 at 630pm. The first few weeks are critical and will teach us many techniques of mime and use a variety of new mime and older styles as well. Im exicted to get things rolling and hope that more people will come and see if it is something that they are interested in joining in. Hope to see you there.