Posted on 10/11/2004 2:06:13 AM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
I preface this short vanity by saying I am pro-life, anti-abortion, anti-stem cell playing-God...
I have a friend who worked on Christopher Reeve's latest TV movie which Reeve just finished directing.
Movie sets are generally bedlam, filled with chaos, complaints, back-stabbing and petty irritations.
My friend said this production was different -- a life-changing experience for everyone involved with it.
The direction on the set was altered to accommodate Reeve's limitations which, according to my friend, were unimaginable. Reeve had to show up before dawn hours ahead of schedule in order to prepare for the rigors of production. He was constantly hooked up to machines. He could move nothing but his facial muscles. He was never alone, yet he was all alone.
Throughout the weeks, Reeve was steady, focused and serene. No one argued about craft services or late entrances or slow lighting. Everyone pitched in and did more than their share -- willingly, gratefully, aware of the tremendous effort Reeve was making and of his constant, unfathomable suffering.
My friend is not a particularly religious man, but he said he felt blessed and humbled to witness Christopher Reeve's profound courage and grace.
His pain is ended; he's strong and whole now. May God comfort those who loved him.
219 posts, and not one mention of the episode of South Park that featured Christopher Reeve and stem-cell research. Soothing Dave, if you can believe it, was the one who first brought my attention to it. I've never seen the episode myself.
There, it's mentioned.
As God wills. 8~)
God can show inspiration in all sorts of circumstances where other can see none. Did Christopher Reeve's suffer a far worst fate than an Egyptian Christian imprisoned and tortured for his faith? Or how about a 10 year old girl in Africa who has become the breadwinner of her family and must work 12-16 hours days just to feed her brothers and sisters after her parents have died of AIDS?
It's hard to say how God works but we know all things work for His glory. Perhaps others WERE inspired.
Actually, Jews aren't supposed to write it out.
Thank you, and amen.
This is truly beautiful Dr. Eckleburg, as were your intentions on this thread. It is regretful that it has come to this here too, as it did on the other threads. You have set a fine example of Christian compassion.
> I am wondering how many hours it will be before
> the left blames Bush for Reeve dying.
LOL. No doubt Kerry will explain that before, when Reeve was quadraplegic, but still alive, it was just a "nuisance."
May Reeve rest in peace. His politics may have been misled, but he did show great courage in the face of adversity.
Your post #184 was so touching. Thanks.
These are the people who don't understand what salvation by grace through faith means. Before I start to sound that way, I will just say, I pray for them also. God bless them.
I do hope he got saved I really do. And I do not gloat when someone suffers or dies. I pray for the unsaved all the time...
As to where he is now, that is not for us to say. But we can honor his life and his valiant struggle against adversity most of us will never know.
Good bye, Christopher Reeves.
Of course not.
Because in my Church, there are no exceptions.
I don't know of any church that does not make an exception in the case of the mother's life.
Why don't you tell us what church you belong to so we can verify this claim?
By my Church's definition, you may just be as hellbound as Reeve.
Mr. Reeve, for all I know, is not "hellbound." What I do know is that he actively campaigned for the murder of children.
Surely, you will disagree.
I'll just point out the embarrassingly basic flaw in your logic.
There is a difference between campaigning on behalf of abortion and campaigning against it.
By your logic, the fireman who chooses to save two people on the ground floor while leaving one person behind on the upper floor is a hellbound murderer, even if he goes back to try and save that last person.
Logical people, however, realize that he is not a murderer and that trying to save as many lives as circumstances allow is not a crime.
That's good, because precisely what I said earlier has now happened. Rush played clips of Dungheap Harkin, "Big Dick" Durbin, and Cheesedog Edwards all but saying Bush's policies killed Reeves. I guess I should always lowball my expectations of the left.
Here's a column I wrote on this topic earlier:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1242989/posts
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