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Empowering Unqualified Souls
00:03:09
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| Donna, what made you want to write this book, Your Three Girls? | |
| Well, okay, so I was actually just minding my own business one day and my phone blew up. | |
| And it's Tom, my dad, and he's out on to date with her. | |
| And he says, We just got the most wonderful, amazing idea. | |
| Okay, so you know that over our wheelhouse at Skywatch television is, you know, what is the Pope up to? | |
| And all these obscure, like, theologies and all of these, like, really, really deep. | |
| And he says, the thing that we miss is how to empower a person to say, I've been called by God, but I feel unqualified. | |
| I feel disqualified for what God has called me to do. | |
| I feel like a misfit. | |
| And so we follow, this is actually Tom's brainchild. | |
| He was only a Christmas book by far. | |
| I mean, we do talk theology. | |
| We go so into deep into Moses. | |
| It's insane how much Moses was a misfit. | |
| The guy is so misunderstood. | |
| But ultimately, he said, we got this idea. | |
| Nita got this idea. | |
| You know, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys. | |
| Yeah. | |
| How there is this island where everybody feels like they are never going to amount to anything and they're all broken and therefore they're useless. | |
| But in this particular cartoon, they are the central, because she begged me last night over a text to say this. | |
| There's this moment that people in this country do not realize what this happened, but Rudolph makes a promise in this movie by Rankin and Bass, the 60s movie of Roto. | |
| It's a promise that he is going to go rescue the island of misfit toys and find them homes. | |
| In the first original release, he does not make good on that promise. | |
| The very, very first original release, that first year, they never go back to the island. | |
| Now, this is before the internet. | |
| This is before people could go on and troll every company that they're mad at and petition things online and tell everybody, go to www.whateverintheworld.com to tell them you're angry. | |
| This is before any of that existed. | |
| And what they had to do to tell them that they were mad is literally write a handwritten letter and say, I demand that Rudolph come back for the Island of Misfit Toys. | |
| And this was a movement. | |
| The book goes into, it talks about it. | |
| This was a movement that sparked out of all, it was peppered all across the United States. | |
| People, viewers all over said, I'm not happy with this. | |
| You get your little puppet animators out of Tokyo and you bring them back and I demand you refilm this ending. | |
| So you're talking about the 1960s when it first came out, the very first, they did not come back for the island of misfit toys. | |
| So the whole country erupted. | |
| But what's the point? | |
| Why am I saying that? | |
| Why does that matter? | |
| So that's what a lot of people don't understand. | |
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Toys Broken and Whole
00:00:42
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| But then Tom, he felt so shin the box. | |
| What were some of the other ones? | |
| With Spot, the Dolly for Sue, that had nothing wrong with her. | |
| There's the nesting dolls that has weird wheels. | |
| There's a bunch of them. | |
| Yeah, the train with the square caboose. | |
| There's all these things. | |
| And if you look at that from a modern perspective and you say, each one of these toys thinks they're broken. | |
| But each one of these toys, as it so often is, church, listen, these toys have not been called to be everybody else. | |
| These toys were made by their maker to be exactly what they were. | |
| So when we look at that, we go, oh my gosh, I'm also the door meant to break it. | |
| And when he does that, take it and run with it. | |