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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast,\u00a0<\/em>click here<\/a>

Seemingly out of the blue, there\u2019s a new Indiana Jones.

Fans of the Indianapolis Colts are keeping their fingers crossed that he might represent a positive turn in their football fortunes.

NFL quarterback Daniel Jones \u2013 generally considered a first-round \u201cdraft bust\u201d after five-and-a-half undistinguished seasons with the New York Giants \u2013 has led the Horseshoes to their first 3-0 start since 2009, a mythical time long ago when Peyton Manning was under center.

QB Jones, of course, gets his nickname from the original cinematic Indiana Jones, portrayed in five feature films by Harrison Ford, who has been thrilling audiences now for more than 40 years.

At the climax of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade <\/em>(1989), the Holy Grail \u2013 the cup from which Jesus supposedly drank at the Last Supper \u2013 has fallen into an earthquake-generated crevasse. It is teetering on a ledge. Elsa, a scheming archeologist in league with the Nazis, simply must have it.

But she herself is teetering on the edge of the abyss. Indy barely holds her by her wrist, and he\u2019s losing his grip.

She twists in an effort to reach the Grail. \u201cElsa, don\u2019t do it!\u201d he pleads. \u201cGive me your other hand!\u201d But she can\u2019t take her eyes off the prize. Because she reaches for it, she plunges into the darkness.

Now it\u2019s Indiana\u2019s turn. After an aftershock pitches him over the edge of the crevasse, he also dangles helplessly, held only by his father\u2019s outstretched hand.

\u201cGive me your other hand,\u201d pleads his dad. \u201cI can\u2019t hold on.\u201d But Indy, like Elsa, is mesmerized by the Grail. He extends his fingers. \u201cI can get it. I can almost reach it, Dad!\u201d

What follows is one of the great ironies in the story.

Professor Henry Jones \u2013 Indy\u2019s father, played by Sean Connery \u2013 has spent most of his adult life searching for the Holy Grail. It\u2019s finally, almost literally, in his grasp. But he understands that even history\u2019s most fabled artifact comes in a distant second place to hanging on to his son, from whom he has been estranged.

\u201cIndiana,\u201d he says, gently but firmly, \u201clet it go.\u201d\u00a0

Indy turns away from the trinket and lets his father pull him to safety. Here\u2019s how Steven Spielberg directed the action: Indiana Jones – Let It Go Scene<\/a>

In 2010, moviegoers became acquainted with another Elsa and another \u201cLet It Go.\u201d The lead character of Disney\u2019s animated feature Frozen<\/em> sings a song that seems to have been memorized by every young girl in America. Elsa sings:

It\u2019s time to see what I can do<\/em>
To test the limits and break through<\/em>
No right, no wrong, no rules for me<\/em>
I\u2019m free!<\/em>

Let it go, let it go<\/em>
I\u2019m one with the wind and sky<\/em>
Let it go, let it go<\/em>
You\u2019ll never see me cry<\/em>
Here I stand<\/em>
And here I\u2019ll stay<\/em>
Let the storm rage on<\/em>

This is a song of self-determination. For Elsa, \u201cfreedom\u201d means the abolition of every restraint. She will no longer conform to the expectations of others.

For all intents and purposes, \u201cLet It Go\u201d has become America\u2019s cultural national anthem. No right, no wrong, no rules for me<\/em>.

Henry Jones, however, is clearly pleading with his son to exercise a different kind of freedom \u2013 the freedom to say No to something that seems good in the moment in order to say Yes to that which is lastingly better. If Indiana dies to his family\u2019s archeological aspirations, his life will be saved \u2013 and he\u2019ll be able to enjoy the far greater treasure of his family.

When most of us come to such decisive moments, however, we find it excruciatingly difficult to let things go \u2013 even things that we know are killing us.

There\u2019s an old story about a mother who looks out her kitchen window and sees her children playing with some baby animals. Peering a little more carefully, she\u2019s mortified to discover that those creatures are baby skunks. \u201cRun, children, run!\u201d she screams. Alarmed, they each pick up a skunk and take off running.

We tend to take our skunks with us wherever we go.

We hang on to our grudges, our bitterness, our resolutions to get even, our sense of failure, our overwhelming unworthiness in the presence of a holy God. We can hardly imagine life without such thoughts.

But our heavenly Father says, gently but firmly, \u201cIt\u2019s time to let them go.\u201d

Author John Ortberg, in his recent book Steps<\/em>, notes that on the same night Jesus sat at the Last Supper with his friends, he wrestled with his awareness of the agony that lay before him. \u201cFather, if it\u2019s possible, may this cup pass from me.\u201d

In ancient Judaism, \u201cdrinking the cup\u201d meant surrendering to God\u2019s will, accepting God\u2019s justice. Jesus wondered if perhaps there was another way.

And his Father said, \u201cMy Son, let it go.\u201d

Because he did so, Jesus received new life three days later \u2013 the same deep, lasting Life that can now be ours by faith.\u00a0

Even at this very moment, you are being held by your Father\u2019s strong grip.

Will you turn away from lesser things and let him lift you into the life you\u2019ve always wanted?\u00a0
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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast,\u00a0click here Seemingly out of the blue, there\u2019s a new Indiana Jones. Fans of the Indianapolis Colts are keeping their fingers crossed that he might represent a positive turn in their football fortunes. NFL quarterback Daniel Jones \u2013 generally considered a first-round \u201cdraft bust\u201d after five-and-a-half undistinguished seasons with the New York Giants… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1005,208,338],"class_list":["post-4908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-last-supper","tag-sacrifice","tag-surrender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4910,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4908\/revisions\/4910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennsreflections.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}