Here’s to the everyday hero, the man, woman, or child who keeps going day after day, facing odds, enduring criticism, seeing a dream grow fainter, yet doesn’t give up. Hats off to the person who puts one foot after the other, smiles when he feels like crying and lifts his chin when he wants to lie down in defeat.
It takes courage to put someone else’s needs before one’s own needs, to stand firm on dearly held beliefs, to risk being unpopular by not going along with the crowd.
Each day, men and women head out to work, rise to face a financial or health crisis, trudge to school, wake up to wrestle once again with a problem that seems insurmountable, face grief or uncertainty. They do so because someone is counting on them, or they know that choosing the hard-to-do thing is also the best thing. They choose to do right even when it is hard and refuse to do evil when it would be so easy.
Our society, our way of life, our families would collapse without the stalwart ones who square their shoulders and lift the load. It’s not that they don’t know the easy ways, the popular and loudly voiced ways. They know them; they just choose not to follow.
I am reminded of the man who built his house upon a rock. He had such a firm foundation that violent storms could not move him. He stood firm. Building his house on such a foundation could not have been easy. Building on the sand would have been faster and not required nearly the effort, but the rock was not moved by floods or winds and was still standing when the lesser house collapsed.
My hat is off to the everyday hero. I ask God’s protection around him and blessings upon him. He is the backbone of our Nation.
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