December 5
Home Alone
I’ve always liked the movie, Home Alone(don’t judge me!), because when it was first released, I could so relate to Kevin. I had a nine year old and seven year old boy who could have been the adorable Kevin (Macauly Culkin). Our grandson, the charming Henry Kyle, could easily be his younger brother. The face, the grin, the sass – yes, even at twenty months, there’s a lot of Kevin in our precious little one.
There’s a great deal of slapstick comedy in this movie, and some improbable turns in the plot, but woven throughout the story is a theme that reaches through the silliness and slapstick: reconciliation. As Kevin’s mother travels cross-country in a truck with the King of Polka (John Candy) and his polka band, she does so because nothing matters to her more than being reunited with her son.
And then there’s Old Man Marley. Rumored to be the South Bend Shovel Slayer, instead, he is a lonely man estranged from his son, hidden in a church pew to catch a glimpse of his granddaughter as she sings on Christmas Eve. Here, in the midst of Home Alone, is the heart of the gospel. “Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled.”
A phrase in Paul’s writing shows us the way.
All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ,
and has given us the ministry of reconciliation . .
II Corinthians 5:18
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