There is a scene near the end of “The Two Towers” in which Frodo is highly discouraged as the battle between good and evil goes on before him. At this time the following conversation takes place:
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.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
This is a question we as Christians should ask ourselves: what are we holding on to? Are we clinging to the same person as those heroes in our stories of old? Biblical heroes lived through dark times, but they lived with a singular purpose of holding on to the God that they knew to be worthy of worship. They were able to keep going because they held tightly onto him.
What are we holding onto?
