faith unfaded

I read today that they are remaking one of my all-time favorite movies: Baby Boom. And that sent me down a pop culture rabbit hole that landed on one of the most profound truths I’ve ever inadvertently reached:

People are not defined by their worst role.

The thought came as I was thinking about another remake of a beloved 80’s movie, Overboard. The gender-swapping modern remake starred Anna Faris and Eugenio Derbez — and it missed the mark. I’d blamed Derbez, thinking he was a terrible actor and believing he’d bought himself a role he didn’t deserve. (His production company had optioned the rights to the film.)

Case closed. I moved on.

Years later, I was watching the touching faith-based film The Girl Who Believes in Miracles and googled the hilarious, warm-hearted doctor in the movie. Guess who it was?
Eugenio Derbez.

My mind immediately went from IMDb to oops.

I realized I had built an entire opinion about a person based on one role — one moment in time, one frame of their story. I’d made a whole judgment from a single pass. And the truth is… we do that constantly.

We lock people into their lowest performance and never let them move past it.

And if I’m honest?

That’s been done to me more times than I can count.

People have taken one season, one hurt, one failure, one rumor, one chapter of my life — and tried to make it my headline. I’ve been defined by my worst scenes in other people’s memories, even when God had already moved me miles beyond them.

But God doesn’t freeze-frame us like that.

He doesn’t introduce us as the mistake we made, the season we walked through, or the chapter we outgrew. He doesn’t reduce us to the version of ourselves someone else refuses to let go of.

Instead, He keeps directing — keeps shaping — keeps revealing the truer, deeper, holier story He’s been writing underneath it all.

He has been faithfully molding me my whole life, not based on where I’ve been weak, but on who He knows I can become. Not based on my worst role, but on His best work in me.

People may remember our lowest scenes.
God remembers our whole story.

And that… is why faith doesn’t fade.

Because grace doesn’t either.