Now I’m here blinking in the starlight now I’m here suddenly I see.
In a song appropriately entitled I See the Light, they sing:Īll those days watching in the windows, all those years outside looking in.Īll that time never even knowing just how blind I’ve been. She and Flynn sing words that powerfully portray how foolishly blind we were under Satan. Remembering, she realizes how she has been used and abused by Gothel. “I am the lost Princess!” “I am the daughter of the King!” Stunned, she remembers her true identity. Through the unlikely intervention of the scoundrel Flynn Rider, Rapunzel remembers. Binding us in chains of lies until we no longer remember who we are nor Whose we are.īut then (like the two greatest words in the English language-“But God”), her chains fell off, her heart was free. Blinding us to our true identity as children of the King. Claiming God is untrustworthy-that God does not have a good heart. Blinding and binding.Ĭlaiming God is a shalt-not God. “You’re safe with me.” “I love you.” “You are precious to me.” “Only I can protect you.” “The world out there is unsafe.” “I am your mother.” “You belong to me.” Gothel continually whispers lies to the child. For eighteen years she hides Rapunzel deep in the forest in a tower. The evil Gothel, the Satan-figure in this story, steals baby Rapunzel at night. It also endues the newborn child, Rapunzel, with hair that keeps one young forever. That drop of sun heals the Queen during childbirth. Change the middle letter of “sun” and we have the Son of God coming down from heaven with the power to heal the sin-sick. Tangle begins with a tiny drop of sun falling from heaven with the power to heal the sick.
Watching it, I was struck by how it, like so many movies, fables, and fairy tales communicates the message: we are blinded to our real identity. Until this weekend, I was likely one of the final few people who had yet to watch Tangled, the Disney movie about Rapunzel.
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