Lilo and Stitch

[Stitch (blue alien) was a "criminal" from an intergalatic federation.  He is being arrested in this clip.]

So Stitch is "soft, and fluffy", and polite, how could he be a criminal?  Throughout the movie you see a transformation in Stitch from a terrible person, to a sweet person.  What is it that changes him?  It is the family that he has been adopted into.  As you see at the end of the clip Stitch was bought, but brought into the family.  He belongs to Lilo and Nani (the Hawaiian girls).  It is their family.  It is this "small, and broken" family that made this creature civil.

The thing that I find so important from this clip is that Stitch responds so adequately to the question who are you.  In the beginning of the movie he was referred to as an abomination, and now to the question of who he is, he responds "this is my family."  He is claiming that the reason for his existence, the things that most define him is his family.  Stitch became part of this family even though it was not an easy process.  It is these people, his family that has transformed him, and gave purpose to his life.

This is hopefully what our families do for us as well.  I hope and pray that our families are that profound foundation for and being of our understanding of who we are.  It is a testament to how families should love.  They have a great phrase in this movie. "Ohana, Ohana means family, family means no one gets left behind, or forgotten."  I pray that we all have families that make us believe in this word, Ohana.  Just because people are stupid, or treat us bad, or destroy things as Stitch does throughout the movie it was not reason enough to exile him from the family, because of what Ohana is.  We need to care, and look out for one another.  Only love, not hate, frustration, or those negative responses breaks down barriers.  It is only love that has the power to transform into something beautiful, which Stitch is very much.  (granted of the more soft and fluffy variety.)