ENCANTO - The Lost Art of Reconciliation

This video explores how Jesus taught us to go about reconciliation as depicted through Mirabel in the movie Encanto. Yeshua gave us certain steps to take in the Gospels on how to humble ourselves and apologize, while at the same time seeking forgiveness.

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This was the movie the world needed!This is what we wanted and what we needed!We’re all getting ahead of ourselves with our perfect social media lives and our amazing talents and and living our best lives and the next gadget and the next gizmo, all the while forgetting the cracks in our foundation.

Jesus hit the mark when he talked about building our house on the rock and not sand.Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. Maybe we are too busy to actually sit down and have a heart to heart with someone who hurt us or offended us.Or maybe we’re too prideful.Or they’re unapproachable.Or both.So we put on a smile around them to cover the cracks underneath instead of addressing the wounds and healing them.

James literally tells us how to get healing.And no it’s not by eating an arepa con queso.“Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed.” James 5:16

If you messed up and hurt someone, confess it.Tell it like it is.Seek understanding.Work it out.Don’t villainize the other.Or assume motives.Understand the root cause, the foundation.Then fix it.

Extend forgiveness.And build again on the solid foundation of Truth and love, with the pillars of transparency and grace.The world has forgotten how to do this.And now the cracks are so evident and visible in this broken world.And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. 27 And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.”In a world that thinks it’s so wiseJesus Himself said we are foolish if we don’t do this.Never let your grand life vision get any larger than the person standing in front of you.Our nation is made up of states.And states are built on cities.

And cities are built on communities.And communities are built on families.Families are the epicenter of it all.Fix the family, fix the community.Fix the family, fix the city.Fix the family, fix the nation.

Fix the family, fix the world.It’s no secret that many of the crimes, murders, abortions, patterns of generational divorces and on and on and on are rooted in broken families.

That’s why Encanto is so important. It’s getting back to the root of the matter.Leo Tolstoy once wrote: “Happy families are all alike but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”Let’s examine the four main themes in Encanto.Mirabel and Bruno were both prophet types. And Prophets reveal and uncover, calling us to awaken to the truth underneath the surface. Mirabel and Bruno are both “outsiders” from the rest of family, seen as strange and “lost”, blind to the purpose of the family. As we come to see, it’s the other way around. Abuela’s intentions for the Madrigal family are good. Abuela sees the magic as central to the family. “Think of the family,” she continually tells everyone. But the intention of togetherness and unity ends up excluding, Mirabel and Bruno. Each member of the family feels their own isolation and loneliness with the crushing expectations placed on them. Isabela is even arranged to marry a man named Mariano, despite not wanting to, because it’s “best for the family”.

Eventually Mirabel angrily lashes out at Abuela, telling her that the cracks in the casita and the family’s dying powers are because of her, that no one will be good enough for her.It’s clear that Abuela has been clinging to the “blessing” and the false security of it. She has made it an idol.The candle symbolizes Abuela’s deep faith in the blessing. We tend to see faith as something we grasp and hold onto. Mature faith is one of letting go and being freed. When the magic dies and the casita collapses, cracks extend throughout the town and a mountain splits open. It reminds me of after Jesus’ crucifixion, when the earth quakes and the veil is torn. The facades are broken open. Mirabel escapes through the split of the mountain and goes to the place where the magic began, the place where Abuela’s husband Pedro gave his life for her, the source of the blessing. Abuela finds her and opens up saying, “I lost sight of who our miracle was for.” Mirabel’s own eyes are opened to Abuela’s plight, the loss of her beloved, and her hope for her family.

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