Heroes...
I'm such a sap.... That speech Aunt May has in Spiderman 2 always brings tears to my eyes...
After Peter Parker quits being Spiderman, a kid helping his Aunt move asks him where Spiderman has gone "He Quit" Peter replies... "But he'll be back... right?" the boy replies It's through that conversation that Aunt May goes into this particular line that gets me every time..
"He knows a hero when he sees one... too few characters out there... flying around like that. Saving old girls like me... Lord knows kids like Henery need a hero. Courageous, Self sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer for them, scream their names. And years later they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours, just to get a glimpse of the one that taught them to hold on just a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride. Even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most... even our dreams.... Spiderman did that for Henery and he wonders where he's gone... he needs him."
everytime.... it has be bawling.
Rarely have I heard truer words though. We all have the potential to be a hero, we all have the potential to be someone worthy of having others look up to them. All we have to do is become that person... and lucky for us, it doesn't even take a bite from a radioactive spider or anything! I know it's all I've ever wanted for my life at least... I may not know what carreer I want to persue, I may not even have a steady plan for my life yet. But the one thing I do know I want to be more than anything is a hero, a role model, someone worthy of following in the footsteps of. And to do that, I try to follow in the footsteps of my hero... well... besides Spiderman ^.^()
Like most heroes, he was more than met the eye. Who would have thought the son of God would come to Earth as a poor traveler born to a carpenter's family? He had the power to do anything, but rather than rule supreme, he gave up his throne, he gave up his heavenly majisty, he came into this frail fragile human form why? For us...
He traveled from town to town doing things for others, never a selfish thought in his head. He healed the sick, he cured the lame, he raised the dead... And the people hated him for it. But that didn't stop him for a second... he kept on healing and preaching, he came to save us all from hell... how was he repayed? They nailed him to a cross, they gave him one of the most tortureous deaths humanly imagineable, he could do anything, he had the power to stop it. He didn't have to take it. But he died on that cross... for us.
He gave his life as a sacrifice to save ours. I know the story has been told the the point it just comes off now as preachy and clichee... but stop, if you will. Take a moment to realise just what happed on that dark day 2000 years ago. And the light that we can now be a part in because of it. Forget everything you've heard about it in church, or what you've read about, and honestly stop and take it in... as if you're hearing it for the first time....
Realise what Jesus did for you, realise what he gave up, realise the kind of person he was.
That's my hero...
That's who's footsteps I try to follow in...
And I mess up alot, like all people do...
But I hope that, maybe one day, I too might be the kind of person that people can look up to. That I can be the kind of person that people want to be like.
And I hope that by those people, by following me.... will be following him.
Aunt May couldn't have said it any better... we all need heroes.
Who's yours?
God loves you and I love you!
-Ross-
After Peter Parker quits being Spiderman, a kid helping his Aunt move asks him where Spiderman has gone "He Quit" Peter replies... "But he'll be back... right?" the boy replies It's through that conversation that Aunt May goes into this particular line that gets me every time..
"He knows a hero when he sees one... too few characters out there... flying around like that. Saving old girls like me... Lord knows kids like Henery need a hero. Courageous, Self sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero. People line up for them, cheer for them, scream their names. And years later they'll tell how they stood in the rain for hours, just to get a glimpse of the one that taught them to hold on just a second longer. I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride. Even though sometimes we have to be steady and give up the thing we want the most... even our dreams.... Spiderman did that for Henery and he wonders where he's gone... he needs him."
everytime.... it has be bawling.
Rarely have I heard truer words though. We all have the potential to be a hero, we all have the potential to be someone worthy of having others look up to them. All we have to do is become that person... and lucky for us, it doesn't even take a bite from a radioactive spider or anything! I know it's all I've ever wanted for my life at least... I may not know what carreer I want to persue, I may not even have a steady plan for my life yet. But the one thing I do know I want to be more than anything is a hero, a role model, someone worthy of following in the footsteps of. And to do that, I try to follow in the footsteps of my hero... well... besides Spiderman ^.^()
Like most heroes, he was more than met the eye. Who would have thought the son of God would come to Earth as a poor traveler born to a carpenter's family? He had the power to do anything, but rather than rule supreme, he gave up his throne, he gave up his heavenly majisty, he came into this frail fragile human form why? For us...
He traveled from town to town doing things for others, never a selfish thought in his head. He healed the sick, he cured the lame, he raised the dead... And the people hated him for it. But that didn't stop him for a second... he kept on healing and preaching, he came to save us all from hell... how was he repayed? They nailed him to a cross, they gave him one of the most tortureous deaths humanly imagineable, he could do anything, he had the power to stop it. He didn't have to take it. But he died on that cross... for us.
He gave his life as a sacrifice to save ours. I know the story has been told the the point it just comes off now as preachy and clichee... but stop, if you will. Take a moment to realise just what happed on that dark day 2000 years ago. And the light that we can now be a part in because of it. Forget everything you've heard about it in church, or what you've read about, and honestly stop and take it in... as if you're hearing it for the first time....
Realise what Jesus did for you, realise what he gave up, realise the kind of person he was.
That's my hero...
That's who's footsteps I try to follow in...
And I mess up alot, like all people do...
But I hope that, maybe one day, I too might be the kind of person that people can look up to. That I can be the kind of person that people want to be like.
And I hope that by those people, by following me.... will be following him.
Aunt May couldn't have said it any better... we all need heroes.
Who's yours?
God loves you and I love you!
-Ross-
posted by Ross at 7:08 PM
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