What Ebenezer Saw

Last year, during the holidays, I took my daughter Makall to see Disney's A Christmas Carol in 3D( the Jim Carrey version). It followed the typical Dicken's story line: Ebenezer Scrooge, rich & selfish miser, is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits, three of whom take him on a journey of reflection, revealing to him a vision of his past and the opportunities he wasted, his current cruel and selfish state, and the dire fate of his future if he does not change his ways. Scrooge wakes up to his situation as he awakens on Christmas day a changed man.

So this year I went to another Disney 3D movie with two of my daughters, McKenna & Makall, and without giving the story away, I saw a remarkable similarity to the journey of reflection I watched last year in 3D and the one unfolding last weekend in the Disney 3D Movie "Tangled".

My favorite song from the movie says it best:

I SEE THE LIGHT

All those days
Watching from the windows
All those years
Outside looking in
All that time
Never even knowing
Just how blind I've been

Now I'm here
Blinking in the starlight
Now I'm here
Suddenly I see
Standing here
It's oh, so clear
I'm where I'm meant to be

And at last, I see the light
And it's like the fog has lifted
And at last, I see the light
And it's like the sky is new
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once
Everything looks different
Now that I see you

Flynn:
All those days
Chasing down a daydream
All those years
Living in a blur

All that time
Never truly seeing
Things the way they were
Now she's here
Shining in the starlight
Now she's here
Suddenly I know
If she's here
It's crystal clear
I'm where I'm meant to go

Flynn/Rapunzel:
And at last, I see the light

Flynn:
And it's like the fog has lifted

Flynn/Rapunzel:
And at last, I see the light

Rapunzel:
And it's like the sky is new

Flynn/Rapunzel:
And it's warm and real and bright
And the world has somehow shifted
All at once
Everything is different
Now that I see you
Now that I see you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw6q5189kpc


May you see the Light this Christmas season and always,

Merry Christmas!