Redemption and Walt Disney

Someone once said, "Every movie has a redemptive quality, no matter how harsh the material." "Basically, every movie is about redemption." Now that's a hard view to follow into a blog with. Makes for good thinking. Let's try it for a minute. Disney movies .... definitely redemptive. I mean, Nemo finds his Dad, Fender in Robots finds all lost and damaged parts and gets them put together, and "Boo" in Monsters Inc. finds her way home even when surrounded by danger and fear.


But what about the scarier movies; the dramas like "Sand and Fog", the thrillers like "The Brave One" and the horrors...I can't think of one cos they scare the bajeebers out of me. In life tho, we are faced with the same questions. Is our life, our day to day existence aout redemption? In the drama, thriller and horrors of it? Or just about the "Boo" days when you get to be in safe arms or Nemo when you finally find what you thought was lost? Life is all about choices, the ones we make and others draw us into. We can never say that anything we do is without a choice. If we go buy a cheaper brand of milk that goes off in a day; if we drive down the highyway way over the speed. All was choice and both will change lives....just a lot less with sour milk ofcourse. My point is this - we cannot blame God that He is injust, unkind or unknowing. He gave us choice otherwise we are a robotic nation as in "I-Robot." In all the good and bad out there is the hope, no the assurity that our lives are about redemption. In all we do, redemption shines through. Life is not too short to live it with hope, direction and a meaning. Coming out of a sickness, redemption has shown through in many ways in my life. Even if I cannot see it, see God, redemption does not stop it's flow of freedom.

Have the assurance that you have can redemption - realising it is a choice. Even if your life is a Disney movie or a Ron Howard movie full of comedy and drama. Just as long as you are feeling, and realising that (in the local Afrikaan's dialect) "More is nog n' dag. Tomorrow is another day.

And that freedom is strongly interlocked into the word Redemption.