LOVE

Luke 7:36-48, 50 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to have dinner with him, so Jesus went to his home and sat down to eat. When a certain immoral woman from that city heard he was eating there, she brought a beautiful alabaster jar filled with expensive perfume. Then she knelt behind him at his feet, weeping. Her tears fell on his feet, and she wiped them off with her hair. Then she kept kissing his feet and putting perfume on them.

When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of woman is touching him. She’s a sinner!”

Then Jesus answered his thoughts. “Simon,” he said to the Pharisee, “I have something to say to you.”

“Go ahead, Teacher,” Simon replied.

Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two people—500 pieces of silver to one and 50 pieces to the other. But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do you suppose loved him more after that?”

Simon answered, “I suppose the one for whom he canceled the larger debt.”

“That’s right,” Jesus said. Then he turned to the woman and said to Simon, “Look at this woman kneeling here. When I entered your home, you didn’t offer me water to wash the dust from my feet, but she has washed them with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You didn’t greet me with a kiss, but from the time I first came in, she has not stopped kissing my feet. You neglected the courtesy of olive oil to anoint my head, but she has anointed my feet with rare perfume.

“I tell you, her sins—and they are many—have been forgiven, so she has shown me much love. But a person who is forgiven little shows only little love.” Then Jesus said to the woman, “Your sins are forgiven.”

Other times we are like Simon the Pharisee and judge someone based on their past even though they are a new creation through Christ. We forget to look at the new and we focus on the old. The Lord never focus on who we were before we came to Him and neither should we.

Simon the Pharisee did not see the woman as she was (a humble sinner seeking forgiveness, pouring out love for Jesus) because he looked at her as she had been (a notorious sinner). It can be so hard for us to truly believe that we are forgiven; often, we must be persuaded of it, and the Lord does just that.

The key to her forgiveness was faith - it was her faith that saved her because it was her faith that believed the words from Jesus, your sins are forgiven. Faith enabled her to take the grace God gave to her. Forgiveness is ready from God; there is no hesitation or shortage on His part. Our part is to come with humility and loving submission to Jesus and to receive the forgiveness He offers by faith.

Jesus’ point is that the person who realizes how great of a gift forgiveness is (because they have a deep sense of sin) has a great love for the one who forgives, that is, God. The woman’s acts of reverence to Jesus honored Him as the one who brought God’s message of grace.

The apostle Paul also reminds us that our past sins no longer dictate who we are. Paul wrote: “Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality, no thieves, greedy people, drunkards, verbally abusive people, or swindlers will inherit God’s kingdom. And some of you used to be like this. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.” Even though those fellow Christians USED to sin like that they don’t anymore. Paul telling them “some of you used to be like this” lets them know their past do not influence their present. They have changed and no longer seek sin but rather holiness as they have been sanctified and justified by the Lord.

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Let me first say that the crew that worked on this show should be very proud. The visuals are especially wonderful (love that Little Golden Book vibe of the art style especially) and it’s clear that a lot of work went into this. Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi reprising their roles is a joy that really brings it all together. The music is cute.

But. Wow. Writing team, I have some words.

I didn’t think I could get upset about anything to do with a TV series based on Tangled made for funsies that if one wanted, could be completely ignored, haha. I wasn’t prepared to view this show as anything but a lark.

Buuut I apparently care about what happens to fictional characters too much.

They ruined the king. Rapunzel’s father. This man:

This precious perfect sweetheart.

THIS RIGHT HERE:

IS AN IMPOSTER.

I don’t care if you only see King Frederick for a total of two minutes in the original movie and that he doesn’t say a word, because an animator can tell you A LOT about a character with so little to work with, and that is what they did with him in Tangled.

It bugs the ever-living hell out of me that they made him into a cliche, over-used archetype: the overbearing, overprotective father who is so set in his ways that he oppresses his daughter, never smiles, is always stern, doesn’t stand up for her, and glares at her boyfriend because grr boys (and okay he’s a wanted thief, but still). We’ve done this before, Disney. We’ve done this a lot.

It pisses me off because if you wanted to create an interesting conflict for Rapunzel and her parents, THERE WAS ALREADY ONE THERE - 

THEY HAVEN’T SEEN EACH OTHER IN EIGHTEEN YEARS

haaaa I’m sorry it makes me want to tear my hair out because it’s so obvious

They keep the queen as a sweetiepie but make the father a jerk when the focus should have been on how strange and awkward it would be to transition from having an abusive parental figure to two parents who love you and want to make you happy but they hardly know you at all and they don’t know what’s best for you. There would be the heartbreak of not getting to see your daughter grow up to get over now that she’s back, the uncertainty Rapunzel would feel of parents that say nice things and then MEAN IT unlike Mother Gothel. 

The king and queen could have been overprotective and unconsciously triggering Rapunzel’s fear of being confined and locked up again WITHOUT THE DAD BEING AN ABSOLUTE JERK PLAYING EVERY CLICHE IN THE BOOK

ugh I am sorry, I should not be taking it so hard. I’m just really frustrated from a writing standpoint and from the standpoint of someone who watched the original movie. I’m annoyed at how easily this could have been avoided and I’m annoyed because they took a character that was so interesting to people despite his limited screen time and made him into an unlikeable something that he never had to be. P.S. why doesn’t the mom have a beef, why is she so pure if we’re gonna go around ruining the dad

sorry man I call bullshit, look at this guy

I won’t go into other nitpicks like some things about Eugene and Rapunzel that rubbed me the wrong way, because that stuff I can live with. well okay i will also say - no, no that’s enough for today

Hanayume has released Fruits Basket: another Chapter 8!

My first time to create gif although it is not of a high quality like those created using a photoshop, at least I’ve created one. Thanks to the program I’ve found from the net. It’s so simple and easy to use!

First and last ones are the KH official music videos of Hanae: Kamisama Hajimemashita - season 1  Kamisama no Kamisama - season 2

For all you old-school (or maybe recent) Furuba (Fruits Basket) readers who don’t know, there has been a sequel/spin-off of the series called “Fruits Basket Another”, that can be viewed on Mangahere, Mangastream, and probably a couple other manga-reading sites.

Now, we have been introduced to a new group of characters who are going to the school that our Furuba gang (Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Arisa, and Saki) graduated from.

Now the first thing we need to note is that THIS IS A HUGE TIMESKIP. 

How do I know?

There were two huge indicators.

The first being that the teacher who is shown in the first few pages scolding is the the first student council president in the original series that was in love with Yuki. His name is Makoto Takei.

They literally reveal his name. Plus, he’s still in love with Yuki. (lol) 

The second is that Sawa’s teacher is most likely Saki Hanajima’s brother (lololol)

OMG, of all people, he was the last person I expected to become a teacher.

Okay okay.

Now, moving on, we have settled that this is a time skip.

So who are our new characters?

Mitoma Sawa (Sawa), is our new main character. She’s awkward like Tohru was, but in a more unintentional and gloomy way, but just as spazzy. She isn’t as optimistic as our precious Onigiri, but just as adorable.

Now, just a disclaimer, she is not Tohru and Kyo’s daughter, since they have only been proven to have a son (who looks like Kyo). So that means that she’s a whole new character altogether. She seems to come from a broken family, since her mom is almost never home and her dad’s status is unknown. So there’s a very minuscule chance that she’s a Sohma.

That means that we’ll be looking at Mutsuki next. 

Mutsuki is the charismatic student council member that saves Sawa from the admonishment of the ever-zealous Takei. Okay, here’s where things get kinda cool. It’s not outright said that he’s Yuki’s and Machi’s son, but you know from the subtle hints in the first chapter.

^^^^^^ WHO ELSE HAS THIS OVER-PASSIONATE DORK ACTED LIKE THIS WITH?!?!?!?! Thus it makes sense that he would also act the same way with his idol’s son.

Mutsuki is very pretty and charismatic like his father, but unlike his bashful father, he seems to be more cunning and uses this to his advantage. Thus, he’s more straightforward and headstrong. 

Next up is probably one of the more “resembling” characters: Hajime.

Okay. Let’s not lie. This is Kyo 2.0. Hajime acts exactly like Kyo did pre-Tohru. The only indicator, though, is that I think he might have Tohru’s bangs. Well…kinda…

We don’t really know much about him yet, except that he’s chillin’ out in the student council room, and he seems to share Kyo’s temperament (lol), but watch him actually be a fluffy cinnamon roll that’s super shy and awkward, and secretly spazzy and optimistic about certain things like his mommy. 

In the last cameo he made, he resembled his mother a bit more than he does now.

But that’s cool. Though, there’s less evidence that this is their son, than there is for Mutsuki being Yuki and Machi’s son, besides the fact that Mutsuki and Hajime know each other pretty well.

HEADS UP TO ANY OBSESSIVE SHIPPERS LIKE ME:

If this is really Kyo and Tohru’s only son (i.e. the one in the picture above and the one that made a cameo in the ending of Furuba with his wife and daughter) then there’s a LARGE possibility that he will not get together with Sawa.

How do I know?

His wife doesn’t share Sawa’s hair color, and their daughter inherited her hair color from her mother (or Tohru, can’t tell). 

Therefore, unless Sawa dyes her hair blond/brown/ect., the chances that she ends up with Hajime are low. However, this is under the assumption that Tohru and Kyo only had one son, and didn’t have anymore children. 

;==; So that’s a potential ship shot down to the depths of the ocean. /sobs/ 

Overall though, this seems like a pretty promising spin-off. I’m not expected it to be as ground-breaking as its predecessor, especially since it’s only 7 pages long per chapter, but it’ll be amazing to seem some loose ends tied up 8 years after the tragic ending of the series.