Why? Because she’s just like you and me

Ok, so my anger doesn’t literally crystallize into an icy blast, and I can’t turn a fjord into a giant ice skating rink with the force of my finger, but this I know is true:

“For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing.” –Romans 7:19 NIV

In Disney’s 2013 record-breaking release of Frozen, we find a unique main character in Queen Elsa. Despite the fact that she could arguably be considered either the protagonist or the antagonist, it didn’t take long for Queen Elsa to join the esteemed canon of Disney princesses, an elite category of characters whose popularity transcends the era in which they were created. Elsa brings pain and suffering to many of the characters in the movie. Yet, we find ourselves liking her and wanting things to work out for her. Perhaps we know her story all too well: the trying to be good.

In her rebel anthem “Let It Go,” Elsa bellows out the “storm” that rages on inside her. It’s a storm that reminds me of the good and evil at war in us, the unanimated version of humanity. Oh, how I want Keep Reading