"You Don't Stop Just Because" || The Last Brickmaker Wisdom

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CREDIT:

Movie: The Last Brickmaker in America (2001)
Date: Sunday, September 23rd, 2001

Stars In Clip:

● Sidney Poitier as "Henry Cobb"
● Cody Newton as "Danny Potter"

DESCRIPTION:

A man must cope with the loss of his wife and the obsolescence of his job before finding redemption by becoming a role model to an equally lost thirteen (13) year old.

SCRIPT:

While in the truck driving home and at the grave of Mrs. Henry Cobb.

Danny Potter: I wish I could have met her.

Henry Cobb: Danny Potter, this is my wife, Mrs. Henry Cobb. Dorothy, this is the boy I told you about living in the house helping me to make brick for your new library.

Danny Potter: Henry, she's not really here.

Henry Cobb: Yes, she is.

Danny Potter: You don't see her do you?

Henry Cobb: No, I don't see her.

Danny Potter: Well that's good, because if you saw her . . .

Henry Cobb: If I saw her . . .

Danny Potter: You talk to her . . .

Henry Cobb: You talk to somebody everyday for sixty (60) years, you don't stop just because they die.

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

The death of my Dad broke me (http://bit.ly/1AdbWUH​). My Dad was a wonderful husband, a great father and my friend. If I was half the man my Dad was on earth and now is in heaven, I'd be somebody.

BIBLE:

Exodus 20:12 King James Version (KJV)

Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Ephesians 6:2 King James Version (KJV)

Honor thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise