Looks like the snow is all gone. I hope. I don’t know about you but I am ready for spring, allergies and all.

During this time a video clip caught my attention. It seems that the town of Hanahan, South Carolina arrested Elsa (for the uninitiated that is the Disney character from the movie Frozen) for attempting to freeze the town’s water fountain. In the end, police officers had to “let it go.” The fountain Elsa was accused of freezing thawed out before her court date. That means the snow queen had to be set free for lack of evidence. The judge told her however that if the trial had been held in Boston the verdict might have been different.

Of course the little video made be laugh but I began to think about the movie, (Yes I have a five year old granddaughter who loves the movie and everything Elsa) and particularly about the song that all the little girls are singing. Unless you have been living under a rock I know you have heard it, “Let it Go” And I listened to my granddaughter sang along with the song the first time I thought, ”Well, that’s cute and has a great moral to it. We need to let go of bitterness and selfishness, and hatred all those emotions and reactions that damage our soul.” After all doesn’t the Bible say, Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Ephesians 4:31

But after listening to the song for the hundredth time (Did I mention that I have a five year old granddaughter) I began to listen to the words a little closer.

Don’t let them in, don’t let them see

Be the good girl you always have to be. Conceal, don’t feel,

don’t let them know Well now they know

Let it go, let it go! Can’t hold it back anymore

Let it go, let it go!

Turn away and slam the door

I don’t care what they’re going to say

Let the storm rage on.

The cold never bothered me anyway

What Elsa is really singing is, I don’t care what anyone else thinks, I am going to do what I feel like and I don’t care who it hurts. That is not even close to what Paul is talking about in Ephesians, he goes on to say in verse 32, Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Now I admit I really haven’t watched the whole movie, it may have many redeeming qualities, but I wonder if maybe we shouldn’t listen a little closer to what I young ones listen to? Just wondering.