What Are We Holding Onto, Sam?
What are you fightin' for? What are you holdin' onto?
Being a navel-gazing sort of gal, I ask myself these questions every so often.
Well, it's not like I came up with those very questions myself. I have Sam from The Lord Of The Rings to thank:
So talk with me. What is one thing YOU are fightin' for? What are YOU holdin' onto?
I'd like a good list. I need a little refresher course in perspective.
Being a navel-gazing sort of gal, I ask myself these questions every so often.
Well, it's not like I came up with those very questions myself. I have Sam from The Lord Of The Rings to thank:
Frodo: I can't do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto, Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for.
So talk with me. What is one thing YOU are fightin' for? What are YOU holdin' onto?
I'd like a good list. I need a little refresher course in perspective.
3 comments:
I am fighting for my children's spirituality. This is a constant battle, given the state of the world we live in. To add to this already-difficult challenge, I recently find myself as the chief champion and defender in this cause as their father has decided he is deserting this army.
I am holding on to the truth that it's gonna be worth it:
I don't understand your ways
but I will give you my song
I'll give you all of my praise
you hold on to all my pain
and with it you are pulling me closer
pulling me into your ways
now around of every corner
and up every mountain
I'm not looking for crowns anymore
or the water from fountains
I'm desperate in seeking
frantic believing
that the sight of your face
is all that I'm needing
and I will say to you...
it's gonna be worth it
it's gonna be worth it
it's gonna be worth it all
(words and music by rita springer)
I am fighting for the souls of my children as well. I'm fighting for their respect and their friendship. I'm fighting to show the world that there is hope. You can raise children that love Jesus and their parents and each other. I'm learning that the battle doesn't actually belong to me though. The battle belongs to the Lord and it's only through Him that we can fight and keep on fighting.
I think about Sam and Frodo a lot as I climb and fight. Their journey makes mine look like a cake walk! :-)
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