Reflections
We live in a broken world and we want hope. And we go to movies—we read stories— because we get to see broken people become whole. And that’s the message that Jesus gives us.
~ Matthew Luhn, Pixar Story Editor and Artist
To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended. What did God intend? He intended that human beings should grow into such love for him and such confidence in him that they could rightly be called God’s sons and daughters. Human.
~ Rowan Williams, 1950- , Archbishop of Canterbury from 02-12
I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I’m not happy. I don’t feel the way I’m supposed to feel… Rats. Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasize it?
~ A Charlie Brown Christmas, 1965
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes.
~ Madeleine L’Engle, 1918-2007, Author