A person really knows how to live . . .
. . . if they know how to die.
A celebration of life suggests how we ought to prepare for death.
What happens after death ought to make us carefully reflect on life.
Find out why in this week’s Truth in Two (full text below).
These words are still true, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
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from Comenius (here). Mark is President of The Comenius Institute (website). Dr. Eckel spends time with Christian young people in public university (1 minute video), hosts a weekly radio program with diverse groups of guests (1 minute video), and interprets culture from a Christian vantage point (1 minute video). Consider becoming a Comenius patron (here).
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“Lone Star Barbecue Sauce, the perfect partner for your chicken.” Lee Hayden finishes his advertising voice-overs and waits for the producer. “That was great Lee, can you do it again?” Which he does. “Lee, one more time.” Which he does. Four more times. Repetition is a hallmark of both Sam Elliott’s washed up Western character and the screenplay written for him in the movie, The Hero.
Lee is repeatedly reminded of his past and the quickly approaching future. Lee’s character learns early-on in the movie that a fast-growing cancer will soon put him in the ground.
But for a movie where death is unaccredited in the script, The Hero is brimming with life. We clap and laugh through Lee Hayden receiving his lifetime achievement award. We root for a man whose career is considered over when his acceptance speech goes viral over YouTube. We cheer when Lee finds love late in life. We are pleased when Lee wants to correct the absentee father syndrome he left with his daughter. And we celebrate the life-upon-life connection between Sam Elliott and the movie’s writer-director Brett Haley, that made this wonderful movie possible. Life facing death is a plot-line we all understand.
“Lone Star barbecue sauce” makes its repetitious reentry at film’s end, to remind of our own. We have a beginning, a middle, an end. The only question left to answer is, “If we decide to live, how do we keep on living, even if our time is short?” Lee Hayden says to his daughter, “Give me a chance to write another chapter,” wanting to end the repetition of abandonment Lee has created in her life. At the Comenius Institute we believe the reason to see a movie where death has a part, is to learn how to live life.
For Truth in Two, this is Dr. Mark Eckel, president of the Comenius Institute, personally seeking truth wherever it’s found.