Hero
After the recent passing of Jimmy Carter, our nation seems to have no heroes left. Every nation wants a hero and in America we often look to our professional athletes. But they are not heroes, they merely play a game.
And we look to celebrity actors for advice, who don’t know any more and probably less how to live than the average factory worker. Actors are not heroes, they just make pretend and often live in their own pretend realities.
We look to those who have a lot of money, but they are not heroes, they’re just greedy capitalists. And we look to those who are supposedly smarter than the rest of us. But they are not heroes either or necessarily even smart; they often pretend there is no God, as if they somehow would know.
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So when we can’t find any heroes, we look for an anti-hero and when we find one, we elect him president. But he has harmed many people and done nothing heroic, other than down more McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken than most of the rest of us.
Who are the real heroes? Real heroes are people like Albert Schweitzer, Gandhi, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez and the late Jimmy Carter. These folks dedicate their lives in helping others and there are many more like them who do not have recognizable names.
Jesus says, “greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for their friends.“ And Paul later adds, we ought to lay our life down daily for our brothers and sisters. So, now we know how to be a real hero.
What are we waiting for?
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