YES! Xabi is staying on in Liverpool, 'cause Juventus ain't getting him! Haaah!

It's 5 hours away from waking up to head off for work with my mama, but I simply must blog about this.

A simple line, but so much significance.
J.R.R Tolkien is da man. (:

Go watch LOTR if you haven't!! Or watch it AGAIN! It's one of the best movies! (: The war scenes, the war cries, the passion, the fellowship, the King...

I was watching it in my brother's room a few weeks back, and there was something Sam said to Frodo that jumped straight at my heart, and it still resounds in my heart to this very day. Was doing my QT yesterday morning and that whole line just came back to me so strongly.

'Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.'
Beautiful, ain't it?

Luke 23:26
As they led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus.

Matthew 27:32
As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross.

Mark 15:21
A certain man from Cyrene, Simon, the father of Alexander and Rufus, was passing by on his way in from the country, and they forced him to carry the cross.

I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well.

In all 3 books, this man who walked and struggled alongside Jesus moments before His cruxification...his whole act...described in one verse. In one sentence.
He wasn't even one of the 12 disciples. He was just the 'man from Cyrene'.
I want to meet him when I go to Heaven man. Ask him how he felt and what were his thoughts when he struggled with Jesus to carry that heavy Cross, when he first looked into the eyes of our Creator.

I can't carry the work that You did for me, but I can carry You and the Cross in my life.

Luke 9:23
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

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'Now for it! Now for the last gasp!' said Sam as he struggled to his feet. He bent over Frodo, rousing him gently. Frodo groaned; but with a great effort of will he staggered up; and then he fell upon his knees again. He raised his eyes with difficulty to the dark slopes of Mount Doom towering above him, and then pitifully he began to crawl forward on his hands.

Sam looked at him and wept in his heart, but no tears came to his dry and stinging eyes. 'I said I'd carry him, if it broke my back,' he muttered, 'and I will!'

'Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go.'