Bonanza

I turned on the TV during lunch today, something I rarely ever do and without changing the channel, it was playing an old Bonanza show from the 60's.

I only caught the last 10 minutes but the story was about two feuding families that wanted custody of two small twin children, one a boy and the other a girl. In the show they were at church and the preacher read from the Sermon On The Mount and recited the Beatitudes. Then Ben Cartwright read from Second Samuel and the story of cutting the living child in to two pieces.

Its easy to predict where the story went from there. The children were each awarded to the families and were split up. After a few moments, the woman that had no children, who had in fact lost a daughter saw that she could not split the two kids up and sent the girl across the aisle to the other family and her brother. The second woman was at first overjoyed and then she looked at the grieving woman who had so selflessly given up the child and realized she could not keep them both. You see she already had children of her own and was struck by her spiritual conscious.

It was beautiful and made me cry.

What a great program. Bonanza rocks!

Peace,

Kevin