Thursday I posted my analysis of the Super Bowl, but there is another reason why today is one of the most important days of the year. Not only we get the most important football game of the year, but we also get the return of one of my biggest obsessions in life: GLEE!!! Yup that’s right Rachel, Finn, and crew are back for some new episodes starting tonight right after the Super Bowl. To celebrate this amazing occasion that I’ve been waiting so long for I thought a little Glee analysis is in order.
Take a minute to think back to the very beginning of Glee, back before New Directions became the incredible music group that stole our hearts with their incredible renditions of all our favorite songs. Think way back to the Pilot episode when New Directions consisted of what seemed like the 5 most awkward kids in school. There was nothing “normal” about any of them. Rachel: the loser in choir who thinks the world should bow to her, Kurt: the awkward closeted gay kid who gets thrown in dumpsters every day, Artie: the crippled kid nobody even pays attention to, Tina: the strange emo girl, and Mercedes: the hidden super-diva that nobody at school knows. When Mr. Schuester first started trying to revive the Glee Club at school he didn’t get any of the cool, popular kids; he got the awkwardly weird kids that nobody liked. Isn’t it amazing to see how Mr. Schuester took 5 weird, unpopular, kids and turned them into the New Directions group that won sectionals two years in a row? The really incredible thing isn’t that Mr. Schuester was able to turn these geeks into amazingness, but rather the connection that all this has to the Gospel!
When Jesus called the 12 apostles to follow him, one would think it would make more sense for him to pick quite prominent members of society. With preachers, wealthy benefactors, politicians, etc. behind his back Jesus would have had the resources to spread his message quickly and easily throughout the land. However, in the Gospels we know that this is not what happened. The men Jesus called were “nobodies” in society. Many of them were fishermen, and Matthew was even a Roman Tax Collector, a job which was absolutely despised at the time because tax collectors would always collect a little extra than they were supposed to and keep it for themselves. Though, apparently Jesus knew what he was doing as this group of nobodies was able to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ throughout the world, continuing the work of God’s Holy Catholic Church.
When he was on Earth Jesus didn’t hunt out the people who were perfect, but rather loved and embraced people nobody else would despite their imperfections, and through God’s grace they were able to accomplish great things. How beautiful it truly is that God still works this way even now. God doesn’t look for perfect people to bring about his kingdom; he rather chooses to use regular, ordinary people to do the extraordinary. I know I’ll never be perfect, but that doesn’t matter because God doesn’t want me to be perfect. Like I said, God calls the ordinary and uses them to accomplish the extraordinary. You can accomplish extraordinary things if you allow God to work through you. How incredible is that?
“Thank you Jesus for giving me a real, personal relationship with you despite my sinfulness and imperfections. Help me to never forget that no matter how ordinary I feel, I am always extraordinary in your eyes. Guide me, that I may never forget that incredible, never ending love you have for me.”
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