The Bridge within Us!
One of the truly great dialogues comes from Tolkien’s The
Two Towers. Frodo is the ring bearer who must take the ring of evil to Mt.
Doom in Mordor and toss it into the molten lava to destroy it. This dialogue comes just after the pair are
beset by yet one more attack that leaves them exhausted in body and
spirit. We all have narrow bridges to
cross between who we are and what God calls us to be and do. Finally, we awaken, I believe, to the great
mystery that the Giver of the Vocation also gives the grace to carry it
out. We have to give ourselves to the
Giver to cross that bridge.
The Dialogue
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.
Sam:
That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo... and it's worth fighting for
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