Heroes

I have had a few heroes over the years, some from the scriptures and some who God has persoally placed in my life at strategic times. I have also had a few fictional ones like Peter Pan, I love Peter Pan with my favourite movie in the whole world being ‘Hook’ featuring Dustin Hoffman as the much hated Hook and Robin Williams playing the Pan. In one of the classic scenes in this movie which I’m sure I’ve watched a dozen times, Peter comes back to never never land to rescue his kids that Hook has captured. Peter has lived and grown up in normal life, forgot that he is Peter Pan, has no happy thoughts and can’t fly. What a sad man is he, no happy thoughts then while everyone makes fun of Peter Pan not being able to fly his son whispers the statement, “I believe you’re the Pan”, and boom that’s all it takes, someone close enough to him to believe in him. I’ll not spoil the movie by telling you the rest because you must watch it. I think that’s one of the things I miss most about Jill, she believed in me. Knowing my love for this movie she would often say before I preached or performed a wedding or anything else, “Go do it, I believe in you Peter Pan”. The last time she said it to me was the day she died as I went to do something.
Here’s my life’s observation for today. Everyone needs someone to believe in them even against all odds.