Yes, that’s a very famous line spoken early and often by Buzz Lightyear, Space Ranger and superhero. You can see Buzz in every Toy Story movie.
Buzz has an overly exuberant personality, that at times is inspiring and helpful and at other times gets him into more trouble than he expects or can handle. I’d like to think I’m more like the other hero of Toy Story, the dependable cowboy, Woody, but I think in reality – [if there is a reality that involves comparing myself to characters from Pixar movies] I’m much more like Buzz Lightyear.
To infinity and beyond
My faith feels like that too. That I’m reaching for something just a bit outside my abilities, my knowledge, my comfort zone. A faith in something frequently tested and never proven. To infinity and beyond could be the alternate call for Holy Week, the apex of the Christian year.
Where the rubber meets the road. Where we join Jesus on the road to Jerusalem, eating supper with his friends, waiting in the garden, praying for different outcomes, being arrested, tried, tortured, crucified and buried. It’s on the passion walk – when we find ourselves agreeing to walk the way of the cross, to stand with Jesus. To go beyond the path of love, following right into danger and sorrow, to evil and ugly.
Why?
Because we know the end of the story. We have the faith of Buzz Lightyear, to proclaim”
to infinity and beyond”
!
Because there is a beyond, beloved. There may be mishaps and mistakes. There will be pitfalls and hurt. But there is also redemption, glorious redemption! There is also underlying in all that the sure and certain confidence of love; oceans and oceans of love. There is hope in that love. The hope that God makes all things come around right.
We walk the walk because there are times [and maybe now is one of those for many of us] where things are rough. God is with us. Not only with us, but stronger than the danger and sorrow and evil and ugly.
So to infinity and beyond
!!
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