Greetings Dear Reader,
Yesterday I received a comment that simply said, “you are no
hero”. That is the absolute truth. I am not a hero. I am a failed, flawed human who to some
people is only seen through the lens of his worst moments. I do not want you to think that I am trying
to say here that I am heroic. That would
be prideful and wrong.
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| by nevux |
I am trying to say that we can be heroes. We are born to be much more than we allow ourselves
to be. We have the opportunity to be heroic
in moments. I think of the scene in Cyrano
De Bergerac when Roxanne lauds him for having bested one hundred men. He has listened to the woman he secretly
loves talk about her love for another man.
As she leaves she says how brave he is.
His response, “I have done better since.”
It may be that no one sees the battles we fight that really
matter. It is possible that we fight our
hardest fights when no one else is aware.
There is in us, if we choose it, the power to win those battles. We cannot promise that others will understand
or care. We cannot always defend our
choices. We do fail and falter and fall.
At the end of the first Avengers movie there are people blaming
the Avengers for the destruction. It
sets the stage for the continuation of the story but it also gives us a view
into something else. We cannot count on
others to understand why we do all that we do.
I am not a hero. I am not too far
from failure at any given moment.
What makes the difference is not how I have failed in the
past. Rather, it is what I do in the
next moment that matters. It does not
matter what good I have done in the past.
If I do not choose good in this moment then I will be judged by this
moment. Even if I do choose good there
will be those who do not see it. We are
not, however, playing for the crowd. All that matters is that I follow Christ in
the moment and let him be the hero.
Wishing you joy in the journey,
Aramis Thorn
Mat 13:52 So Jesus said to them, "That is why every writer
who has become a disciple of Christ’s rule of the universe is like a home
owner. He liberally hands out new and old things from his great treasure store.”
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Thorn:
Bookings at aramisthorn@aramisthorn.com
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