December 20
Scrooged
The 1988 film Scrooged is a modern take on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, a story that’s been told countless times on the big screen. Bill Murray stars as Frank Cross, a television executive who had fired staff on Christmas Eve. As happened to Ebenezer Scrooge in the original tale, Murray was visited by a variety of ghosts on Christmas Eve, inviting him to embrace the Christmas spirit.
Cross explains his epiphany: “It’s Christmas Eve. It’s the one night of the year when we all act a little nicer, we smile a little easier, we cheer a little more. For a couple of hours out of the whole year we are the people that we always hoped we would be.”
Like Cross, sometimes we need a little help to see ourselves as we are, but also as we can be. We may find that help when looking into a mirror, or perhaps through the voice of a trusted friend or even a random stranger, whose words work their way through our barriers of cynicism or denial. It also comes as the Spirit of God whispers into our spirit, urging us on to confront our own sinfulness so that we might become the person “that we always hoped we would be.” As Cross discovers, we don’t need to remain the person we’ve been, the good news of the gospel.
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
For you are God my Saviour, and my hope is in you all day long.
Psalm 25:4-5
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