Up: The Weight of What We Carry (Hebrews 12:1)

Carl Fredricksen attaches thousands of balloons to his house to fulfill a promise to his dead wife: they would live beside Paradise Falls. But the house becomes a burden—dragging him down when he needs to move, trapping him in grief. Hebrews urges: Let us throw off everything that hinders. Carl's house is beautiful and full of memories, but it has become the very thing preventing him from living. When he finally empties it—letting go of the furniture, the photos, the weight of the past—the house rises again, and so does he. Some promises to the dead can only be kept by living, not by building monuments to what was lost.