Sunshine and Shadow
I've admired both of these sayings from the movie Lord of the Rings:
FRODO: What are we holding on to, Sam? SAM: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.
Many people are looking around at these days and the current happenings. They are saying, 'what is going on here? What is wrong with people and this world?'
Indeed, as we look upon cases such as George Floyd, the following weeks of rioting, destruction, and looting to the latest shooting of a Georgia man and the apparent wresting of justice against the policeman.
We wonder the same thing as Frodo and Sam.
"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."
Some days I too wonder how do we go on? People have asked countless times in countless centuries, how can I bring innocent children into this world?
Yet, generation after generation has come and gone slowly plodding sunshine and shadow, sunshine and shadow. Light and dark.
And it was into this world of strife that God sent His son that whosoever would believe could have eternal life with Him. Because as Sam told Frodo:
"That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."
