I finally found it! I saw this movie the other night and it ended a long,long search for me. I always thought there was a t.v. show about this guy 'Bronson' that I watched when I was a kid. I thought it was the GREATEST show ever. Except no one else seemed to remember it, and anytime I tried to explain it, and as soon as I mentioned 'Bronson', it was only connected with Charles Bronson. So I had begun to think maybe I had imagined the whole thing.
Well, my mind was finally put at ease the other night when the movie aired on television. There was a movie in 1969, and then a t.v. series in '69-'70. Michael Parks was the star.
I would have only been 7 years old at the time, but I still think this show may have had as much to do with shaping me as any other. Either that, or, at 7, I was already able to connect with the main character.
Bronson was a drifer - a guy who set off on his motorcycle to "find himself." What he ended up doing was simply helping people wherever he went. He would stumble upon someone in trouble or in need, and without them really ever even knowing who he was, he would help get them back on their feet... and then leave for another destination.
I never traveled the world on a motorcycle (even though I had a motorcycle for awhile). I really don't even have any desire to just drift around the country, or world. But I still have a desire to help people get back on their feet. And that's what I liked about Bronson -- he didn't help people because he was better than them. He was so totally humble, and usually in trouble himself. But he was always thinking of others as more important than himself. Yeah.
I think it's interesting I came across this movie while preparing to preach a series on the book of Galatians. God, I want to be free like Bronson was. Not free to serve my own needs... but free to love others; to help others; to consider others as more important than myself.
peace and revolution, friends.
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