“The world breaks everyone, and then some become strong at the broken places.” – Hemingway Fixer Upper Philosophy – Finding strength in broken places We put all our energy into trying to disguise the cracks, instead of undergoing golden repair. Sometimes, life breaks us, in a variety of painful ways. Every pot is different and every pot is uniquely valuable. These pots are priceless because they are perfect in a new way. The places that were broken are filled with gold.
#FIXER UPPER FROZEN SONG CRACKED#
What was once a cracked pot becomes an object of unique beauty. In the tradition of Kintsukuroi you take the broken portions and piece them back together again using lacquer resin mixed with powdered gold. It represents too much beauty to you, to just throw away. As an artist myself, or at least as a “wanna be” artist, I know how attached you can become to something you’re making.
In Japan when an artist accidentally breaks a precious pot instead of throwing it away, he repairs it. I don’t know whether you have ever made pottery but along the way to the perfect pot there are many mishaps and breakages. In Japan there is a tradition known as Kintsukuroi or Golden Repair. Sometimes that has resulted in our brokenness but is that the end of the story? I want to give you two examples of a solution: one practical and one more spiritual in nature. How does that work? We have all been stressed or scared and mad. The trolls acknowledge that we can’t change people but a little love and understanding can go a long way to giving others the space and power to change and grow. “We need each other to fix us up and round us out.”.The reality is that many of our bad choices were made in moments we found ourselves backed into a corner – not the best place to make decisions. Throw a little love their way and you’ll bring out the best.” “People make bad choices if they are mad or scared, or stressed.The song, Fixer Upper makes some interesting points: The trolls in Frozen are like the wise relatives encouraging the young girl to be patient and just love Kristoff for who he is, only to discover that she (like all of us) is a bit of a fixer upper too! The holidays bring everyone together and are a time of great happiness but also some familial fireworks! I love this song because it deals with the fact that no-one is perfect, but the love in our hearts enables us to look beyond others’ imperfections and give them the space and time to change on their own.
The reality is we are all a bit of a fixer upper! We are all in the process of perfecting our heart and character to become substantial embodiments of God’s love in the world (not apart from the world, but in the world.) To achieve perfection, or a better term might be spiritual maturity, we need to constantly learn and practice, taking the best from our experiences and the examples of others.
#FIXER UPPER FROZEN SONG MOVIE#
In the movie Frozen there is a wonderful song, Fixer Upper that we can learn a thing or two from: On the other hand, if you are lost in the downward spiral of believing you are hopelessly bad there is no way up. If growth starts with self-awareness, you’re already behind. If you are on the far end of the spectrum with an overinflated ego you can trip yourself up because you don’t have a handle on reality. We too easily fall into the trap of thinking that we are either too good or hopelessly bad. One observation about people in general is we have a tendency for bias in our lives. Who knew that Anna would be able to reverse every one of the four fallen natures in less than two hours! As I concluded last week, art mirrors life and provides its own opportunity to observe and learn. I have been surprised with some of the eye-openers from this movie. We are ending the year at Faith Fusion with lessons from Frozen.
#FIXER UPPER FROZEN SONG FULL#
This week the airwaves were full of Christmas movies and stories intended for children that bring tears to adult eyes! Movies are powerful communicators for good or bad.
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