The crocuses came out last weekend around our house. There's little bits of green sticking through the ground that in a few weeks will be tulips or daffodils. My amaryllis is growing on my kitchen table... faithfully appearing each year.
It's in the middle of Lent that I look for these signs of life. Some time in the middle of "take a walk with God" month, I begin to look for signs of resurrection after a lengthy season of winter death.
Check out this clip from Fantasia 2000 and see if you can find connections between its story and our beloved Christian story of Holy Week and Easter. Feel free to comment!
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My child pulled this DVD out of storage requesting we watch it yesterday although we've had it for several years and no one in our family has actually watched it. This is the first time I've visited this blog and now, viewed from this perspective, I see symbolism throughout. From the moose's (God's - I believe this as the moose only appears when there is nothing and no one to see him, but is because of him that everything ultimately exists) breath of life which gives life to what I perceive to be Jesus, spreading life and joy until He confronts evil and death. Even when all is lost, he is reborn, carried by the Lord, His Father,and finds the strength to persevere and even revisit the volcano, the place of evil, and 'forgive his debtors or tresspassors' and breathe life back into the mountain. Through His death, the world was reborn. I even saw the Spirit look at the tree, once full of life that when burned, resembled a cross. I saw this as a reminder, particularly during Holy week in the midst of these troubled times, that we are the Spirit. When all seems lost, we need to look to our faith to regain perspective, allow it to carry us through and work to spread love and life to others. Thanks for posting this clip. It gave me a moment to pause and reflect and put things into perspective.
Thanks for the comment. I remember seeing this in the theater long ago and feeling the greater sadness of loss in the world and the miracle of newbirth. Sunday is almost here!
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