Les Mis

Go see the movie.  It is a story of conversion.  Jean Val Jean gets out of prison after 19 years.  He had stolen a loaf of bread to feed his starving sister.  His adversary, Javert, representing the law, says that 24601 can never change.  This is the prison identity of Val Jean.  Now outside prison, Val Jean can get no one to help him with food or shelter because he was a thief.  No one changes.  Then a priest takes him in and calls him "guest." He feeds Val Jean.  Val Jean then steals from the priest's rectory and runs away. He is a thief, right?  He hates the world.  The police catch him and bring him to the priest.  Prison awaits.  The priest call Val Jean, "friend" and says he left so early the priest did not have a chance to give him two expensive candle sticks.  Val Jean is off the hook!  The priest says, "Use all this to become a better man."  Jean Val Jean eventually changes, all because the priest loved him and gave him a chance.  Val Jean had been a thief, but not an addictive thief.  Love could change him.  Seems that Jesus had that way about him too.  He loved people in the midst of their mess.  They changed.  As for Javert?  He came to a most unhappy end.