Somewhere

One thing the new pope has done is to kick me firmly back into thinking about Christian values.

I got started thinking about these values, and I got distracted.  I started thinking about An American Tail, (Steven Spielberg's legendary animated feature,) in which Linda Ronstadt sang that lovely song: Somewhere out there, in which this little Russian mouse, coming to live in America, gets separated from his family, and finds himself all alone in New York City, being bullied by gangsters.  And his song expresses that, his family is thinking about him, and praying for him, and hoping to find him again!

I was very young when this movie came out, and my thoughts of what the movie was about are probably based on the song.  The feelings I remember about the movie seemed all about immigrants to America, some of whom helped to keep the little mouse safe, and hopeful, others of which were bent on exploiting him, and making him work for them.  At one time, most kids would have identified with the mouse and his friends; nowadays, there are many who would side with the oppressors, and view the weaker characters as losers, weak, and unworthy of compassion. 

At this point, the pope reminds us that Jesus urged us to side with the underdog.  What will the Christian establishment make of this call of the pope's, as opposed to what many preachers are teaching?

Kay