Recently I was on a plane going home to Boston to visit my family for Christmas. While on the plane, I watched the new Disney movie Mulan. I want to talk about a particular scene that spoke to me loud and clear.
By the way, I will keep this as vague as I can for those who did not watch the movie. If you haven’t, what are you waiting for? Ok, so back to my story.
In this particular scene the soldiers were practicing with one another for battle. Mulan, who was disguised as a male soldier was partnered with another male soldier. He appeared to be “winning” and then Mulan let him have it. She let out battle moves that appeared to be some of the best and everyone saw her.
Everyone saw she was gifted, including the high officials.
She immediately ran back to the barracks and started to tell herself she should not have done that. Ok, I’m paraphrasing. I told you, I am not going to ruin the movie for those who saw it but hopefully you remember this scene for those of you who saw it.
The commander immediately calls Mulan into his quarters and says: Your gift is powerful, why do you hide it? Those words jabbed my heart as if he was talking to me.
This spoke to me because I have been putting off my gifts given to me by God for a long time. I have been wanting to start a blog and do so many others things. Hesitation due to fear and what others thought left me paralyzed not knowing where to start. My heart was heavy because I was not doing the things God put on my heart to do. The desire to write has never left me and has become a burning flame in my inner being.
I decided at that moment to move forward no matter what anyone says and start this blog.
I am sharing this to let anyone know if you have not moved or acted in something it is ok. God will use anything to speak to you like He used this movie to speak to me. Thank you Lord for speaking to me even while watching something as simple as a Disney movie.
Now I am going to speak the same to you: Your gift is powerful. Why do you hide it?
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