I Need a Hero

"where have all the good men gone and where are all the gods?..... where's the street wise Hercules to fight the rising odds?.... Late at night i toss and i turn and i think of what i need.... I need a hero" - Remember that song ? i used to love it as a kid, and i still love it.I used to love it for 3 reasons- Bonnie Tyler's husky voice, the groovy tune and the fact that for most of my life, this song was my anthem.It still is in someways. Although I don't have many male heroes in my life to choose from I do have many women heroes in my life. But it's obvious when i look at my life and the world around me at large, that a woman can never take a man's place. Do you know that there has always been a universal order set in place, and when that order breaks down, everything else crumbles. The order is that God placed Man in charge.In other words, man was to be the care taker of this world.The primary social unit of this world is a family. Every evil that we see in the world today can be traced back to a breakdown in this family unit. From a juvenile delinquent to a sociopath to a wife beater will all have this one thing in common - the initial breakdown within his or her family unit. So how does a man get the primary blame for this ? in the sole role of being placed as the Guardian of his family.When and if he chooses to abscond this role, then the entire unit breaks down and all suffer for it. We have wives that are unhappy and try to get their emotional needs met elsewhere, children that grow up scarred and broken ( i know because i was there once) and even the man, left with nothing but a nagging sense of being unfulfilled; and so he searches for this fulfillment in drugs, alcohol and sex only to find himself worse off than before.Yet his male pride will keep him from admitting it,and so the vicious cycle continues, leaving a trail of unrealized human potential.
Then i have also seen the rare side where Men have stepped up to the plate and been the Husband, the Father, the Protector, Provider, Friend and Support they were supposed to be.Men who diligently watched over their households emotional, physical and spiritual well-being.Real life heroes. These homes thrived and turned out wholesome, loving, confident and generous human beings into the world. But alas, these are few and far between.
Even the very concept of a Loving God is so hard to grasp because the initial example of that in "real life" is the man that we see in the natural.So who would then believe that a loving, caring, protecting, providing God exists, if our first encounters leave us desiring to have nothing to do with the men that are supposed to emulate Him?

Being a hero is not easy but neither is it impossible. It only requires a courageous heart.

"I need a hero...i'm holding out for a hero till the morning light.He's gotta be strong, He's gotta be fast and he's gotta be fresh from the fight. I need a hero! "