After the kingdom of Arendelle is cast into eternal winter by the lovely yet cursed Queen Elsa, her spunky sister Anna teams up with a rough hewn country boy, Kristoff and his trusty reindeer, Sven to break the icy spell. They travel to the far reaches of the kingdom to the icy palace Elsa has isolated herself in. Anna pleads with her sister to come back but Elsa, who is so conflicted by what she has done, accidentally unleashes her icy powers, a portion of which strikes Anna in her heart; and she slowly starts to die. She is told that the only remedy is an act of true love, otherwise she will become frozen forever.
At the end of the movie the turncoat Prince Hans is about to kill Elsa, but Anna throws herself between them, saving Elsa’s life, but in the process she freezes.
As Elsa grieves for her sister, Anna begins to thaw since her decision to sacrifice herself in order to save her sister constitutes an “act of true love.” Not only is Elsa saved, but her curse is broken and the kingdom of Arendale starts unthawing, changing from winter into spring. And this is what we proclaim on Easter Day, isn’t it? Because of an act of true love, sacrificial love on the cross, Jesus the Christ has broken Adam’s curse, and defeated the powers of sin and death; his resurrection signals a new creation, an unthawing of our world so to speak; can you believe after this winter that God is unthawing the world Richmond?
Anna's Act of True Love
