Heavenly Pep Talk

There’s a scene near the end of the second Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, that always gets me teary-eyed. Samwise and Frodo are trying to get the One Ring to Mordor to destroy it, but they’ve already endured so much. Frodo, slumped over in exhaustion and hopelessness, says, “I can’t do this, Sam.” “I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here,” Sam replies. He then goes…