"Who's your hero?"

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Our younger daughter, who enters high school this fall, was in third grade when her teacher gave an assignment to read a biography and write a book report. Our daughter searched for just the right book and discovered the biography of Amelia Earhart.

She finished the book and came downstairs to tell me about it. She told me all about lots of wonderful events from Amelia Earhart’s life and then said, “She was really brave, too, Daddy. Women in her time didn’t do all of these things. She’s my hero.”

Later that year, I found a large reproduction of the photo taken of Amelia Earhart in flight from Oakland to Honolulu. I bought it and we hung it on our daughter’s bedroom wall to remind her that just like Amelia Earhart her hero, she can be brave and do heroic acts, too. And it’s still hanging there today.

Who’s your hero? Who’s someone that excelled and soared above the horizons everyone else saw?

Let God inspire you to be brave like your hero as you make a life and not just a living.

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