Sunday, April 08, 2007
HE IS RISEN! - Links
Here is the highlight of yesterday, the coldest April day in recorded San Antonio history! I spent my elementary school years in the great state of Texas and have never been to the Alamo before. Having grown up on the legends of Travis, Bowie, Crockett and Bonham, I was unhappy with the interpretative materials. I'm a Liberty Valence kind of guy:Ransom Stoddard: You're not going to use the story, Mr. Scott?Keep it in the history books - I like my legends.
Maxwell Scott: This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.
In fact, I'll get on my soapbox just briefly. Is it any wonder people have no stomach for things like the Iraq battle in the war on terrorism. When we have no heroes, we have no desire to be heroes. Proof! Real life heroes are real men and women who do hard things and have failings. But the heroic legend inspires generations beyond to muddle through the hard times, to stand when no one else will - to value something enough to die for it. Some thimgs are worth dying for, and while the death of the men at the Alamo is not truly comparable to the death of our Lord, is today above all days not proof that some things are indeed worth dying for?
Matt says it all for Easter.
Funny how it is just the front half of that verse that makes the headline.
An Easter scandal of eggstravagant proportions.
Can one be pregnant only on weekends?
That poor man.
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