"We can be heroes, we can be heroes," sings David Bowie, "we can be heroes just for one day."  As I watched Bowie sing this song many years ago, I watched his audience, too:  everyone in the crowd seemed to be singing along with him, the entirety of their being expressing his or her wish that, for just one day, he or she could be a hero, and swim, as Bowie puts it, "like the dophins [through the sea]."
     It is a thoroughly human dream:  we all want to be heroes, we all want to take hold of a destiny, we all want to be free, free to make the world for us, free to capture our life wonder.  And so we should.  We are made for destiny, we are made for vision.  We are made to be, as Bowie offers once more, "kings and queens."
     Not kings and queens in a literal sense, of course, but kings and queens of humanness, the kings and queens we were created, in God's image, to be:  kings and queens, heroes of the world, the most heroic dolphins of the sea.
     Seize the moment, be a hero, and swim in the ocean, but be mindful of the moment, for it is only God's heroics, his loving and selfless sacrificial work and eternal presence in Jesus, that enabled it to be.
     Every hero needs a home.