In the musical The Sound of Music, the governess Maria meets the von Trapp children, whose widower father calls them with whistle signals and who, the maid tells Maria, “don’t play; they march!” Over the course of the movie, as their father’s heart is softened by love, he softens toward them, and their home becomes a place of playing and dancing again. Like the von Trapp children in the first part of the film, we may have been trained by our upbringing or by a legalistic church to believe tha...
The Way of Jesus is Love
