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Heroes

September 23, 2019 By John Deisher

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon.”

— G.K. Chesterton
"Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea of the possible defeat of bogey. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."

My children used to love VeggieTales. Well, actually, I did, too.

My favorite was Larry. He looked at life differently. He saw it as an adventure. And, he had no use for a hairbrush because he had no hair. I can identify with that.

But my favorite memory of him was when he became LarryBoy. His catch-phrase was simplicity itself. He knew the situation called for someone to do something heroic. So he would declare:

“I am that hero!”. And he was. He was the hero needed for the moment.

We don’t need more problems. We don’t need more things to fear.

We need a hero.

When Peter and John ran to the tomb, they thought they would be the heroes to an unfolding drama. They would catch whoever removed the body of Jesus. (Hat tip here to Eugene Peterson and his great story about this in his book Five Smooth Stones for Pastoral Work)

But Jesus didn’t need a hero. He was that hero. He faced that biggest dragon we face, death, and defeated it.

So Peter and John became storytellers. Their story was one where people faced financial problems, sickness, lies, betrayal, even death, and declared that there was a hero for us.

Jesus.

Yes, dragons exist. But so does the dragon killer.

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