A Hero Lies in you

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We often underestimate the need for a hero. One person impacting the world. Jesus was our hero. He saved us for more than we can ever know or comprehend. 

 We read in John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

 Today the world is crying for boldness, heroes. The truth is that we can help rescue those in bondage we can help break the chains of addiction. 

 Love conquers all.

  And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
I Corinthians 13:13

 Today I wanted to find a hero that I could honor. Someone that impacted lives beyond themselves. Selflessly and something could have not been done in their own strength, but in the duty to love others.

 I want to honor Doreen Winkler, she saved two men who were in their own minds on, deaths fingers. They were on the brink of getting hit by a subway in Brooklyn, New York.


Doreen Winkler of Brooklyn helped save two men from the tracks at the Bowling Green station in           Manhattan. 

It was double the trouble and terror — with twice the reward.
Tiny Doreen Winkler miraculously helped yank two men from the path of an oncoming subway train on Thursday night after things went bad for a good Samaritan in the Bowling Green subway station.
“Thank you, I thought I was going to die,” one of the death-defying duo told Winkler as they hugged on the platform after the near-miss.
The grateful would-be rescuer had jumped from the platform at her urging Thursday night after a drunken drifter fell to the tracks.
The 5-foot-2 Brooklynite wept Friday when recounting her adrenalized effort as visions of this week’s fatal subway shove ran through her head.
“I had one arm each of each man,” she told the Daily News. “I was freaking out that nobody was helping at first.”
Her heroics elicited applause from fellow straphangers — mere seconds after the lower Manhattan subway station echoed with screams and gasps of horror.
“You can’t ever, ever, ever watch somebody die,” said Winkler, who moved to New York four years ago from Hamburg, Germany.
Winkler said she couldn’t shake the image of Ki-Suck Han, 58, pushed into the path of an oncoming train Monday afternoon in midtown. The Korean immigrant was killed before anyone could come to his aid.
“Not again,” she said. “The whole time in my head, not again. I kept thinking I’m going to watch him die.”
The terrifying incident occurred as Winkler was waiting for a train to an uptown wine tasting just before 10 p.m.
She heard an odd noise and spotted the apparently drunken man laying on his back in the middle of the tracks. “Help him! Help him!” shouted frantic straphangers on the other side of the station.
Winkler, afraid she couldn’t lug the bigger man to safety alone, encouraged a man standing nearby to jump down for a rescue try.
“This guy jumps down on the tracks,” recalled Winkler. “And he’s pushing him, trying to get him to stand up.”
Witness Margaret Besheer said the panic in the station escalated when the second man landed on the tracks — and the northbound train suddenly appeared.
“I glanced up and see the lights of an approaching train on the uptown side, and glance back and now there are TWO people on the tracks,” recounted the Voice of America correspondent.
The unidentified rescuer and his drunken target managed to reach the platform, where Winkler — with the help of two other women — pulled the pair to safety.
The original hero left the station and his identity remains a mystery.
“It all happened so fast,” said Besheer.
Thank God this had a happy ending.”
The first person on the tracks was later identified as Jack Simmons, a homeless man formerly of the South Bronx. Witnesses said he appeared boozy and dazed before tumbling from the platform.
“He’s a drifter,” said a relative. “I hope he’s OK. I don’t know what to tell you.”
Simmons, 64, was treated and released at New York Downtown Hospital, police sources said. He told cops that he was slightly intoxicated before slipping onto the tracks.
Hero Winkler wound up riding the train back home after her daring effort.
“This is not about attention ... it’s about what everybody should do,” she said. “I don’t understand how people can just stand there and watch and not help.”
-With Pete Donohue
Thank you Doreen for your bravery. In all things said, you don't have to save someone from getting ran over by a subway, but you can give people love. It will last forever more. If we love those around us then we can be a hero in Jesus. I pray that today it encourages you to be someones hero.

 @chrisburkmenn

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