Hoppy New Year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgtDAqIp0xo

Have you seen this Pixar short, Boundin'? I just love it, loved it when I first saw it a few years ago. I saw it again last week on a TV special. It goes right along with my current theme, Letting Go of the Old to Embrace the New. Poor little lamb was stuck in the past, what he'd had, and what he'd lost. Little did he know that it would be returned to him in time. But for the time being, he needed to shift his gaze, get his eyes off of the loss, and rejoice in the present. "Now sometimes you're up and sometimes you're down. When you find that you're down, well, just look around. You've still got a body, good legs and fine feet. Get your head in the right place and hey, you're complete."

I don't know much about the author, or the origins of the jackalope, that "rare hare of hope", but to me, he's a great Christ figure.

I'll be preaching on this soon ("Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice...I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound...." Phil 4:4,11-12) -- I want to show this short!

Toward a Hoppy New Year, I invite you to join me in Boundin'.