Which Way Is Home?

I know The Wizard Of Oz was not intended to be a Christian story, but it does have so many elements of a spiritual journey in it that it is easy to use for illustrations.  I think the "pilgrimage" Dorothy is on to get home and how she always interacts with kindness to the characters she meets on the way even in her moments of frustration and fear is one of the reasons I love the story so much and how it is easy for me to connect it to a faith journey.  But, if you look at it from a slightly different angle....that of Dorothy being like our souls...it teaches us what we need to make sure we have for our love relationship with GOD, Himself....a sound mind, a kind heart, and courageous strength or boldness.  If you can see the story on those two levels, I think it is so COOL that it can teach what the expert in the law asked to test Jesus...."What must I do to inherit eternal life?"  Jesus responded with,

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, Love your neighbor as yourself."