This was a movie, a VHS movie, that I bought at the Good Will Store for 25 cents. I like to go to the Good Will Store for some pretty cheap entertainment. Most of their movies VHS and DVD are usually just 25 cents each.
In a day where streaming is common, it is good to go back to the old days of VHS and DVD movies. I am just glad I have a VHS that still works and a DVD player that still works too.
So in this movie their is this little kid, he was born with a defect. He was smaller than most kids, as a matter of fact in the movie the character Simon Birch was supposed to die some hours after he was born, but he made it, but was a very very small child. He had a friend that would take care of him and he was normal size.
Well, this Simon Birch though out the movie, mentioning that God has a plan for him, that one day he would be a hero.
In the movie the kids were to go to an outing for a few days and Simon Birch got sick and didn't go with the rest of the kids in the retreat thing, but some how Simon Birch found out who was his friend's real father. So he got an adult friend of the family to drive him to the retreat.
His friend found out that the Pastor of the church doing this retreat thing was his father. So the retreat thing was over and Simon Birch went into the bus to ride with his friend. The friend of the family followed the bus in his car. I should mention that this retreat thing took place in 1964.
Anyway on the way home it was snowing and there was a deer in the way, the bus swayed and missed the deer, but the bus lost control and when down a hillside with no roads and ended up in the river.
There was chaos and the driver opened the door and swam to the riverbank, and left the kids and the Pastor got knock out, unconscious for a bit.
So I would call, the driver that slipped away, a hiring that cares not for the kids in the bus. And the Pastor was knocked out.
Then is seemed like a moment of clarity happened to Simon Birch, he told everyone to be quiet in the midst of the chaos, he said something like, Everyone of you are going to be safe, I will make sure of it and he told his friend to get the unconscious Pastor to the riverbank then he came back and one by one Simon Birch's friend helped everyone of the kids out.
Then Simon Birch noticed there was a child missing from the group, the water was up to the kids mouth, but this child had his foot stuck on something.
One thing I have to mention is that Simon Birch and his friend would have this game of how long Simon Birch could hold his breath under the water. As Simon Birch would play this game he would go under water and his friend would count the seconds, as one Mississippi, two Mississippi and so on. So Simon Birch could hold his breath.
So back to the kid with the foot stuck on something, Simon Birch went under water to free that kids foot, then they found they couldn't open the door any more, but Simon Birch went under the water again in the bus and lifted the little kid up so he could open a window that was free to open as the water hadn't reached that far yet.
So Simon Birch was underwater holding his breath as he was lifting the kid up and the kid finally got the window opened and help came to pull the kid out of the window, but what about Simon Birch? He was still holding his breath, but some how got out of the sinking bus through that window.
The scene changes and his friend wakes up in a hospital. He wanted to see his friend, Simon Birch, well he went to his room with a friend of the family. Simon Birch did wake up to talk to his friend and told his friend he wanted him to have his baseball cards.
Then he said to his friend, I have to go now, and his friend said, Ok. That was the last time his friend seen Simon Birch alive.
So Simon Birch was sick already and that icy river didn't help. But the little Simon Birch was a hero, he made sure everyone on the bus would be safe. He did act and spoke as a hero, which all his life he wanted to be.
Let's end with a scripture, as it is written, Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. Ecclesiastes 9:15.
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Thank you, David.
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