Captain Hook often feels alone.
… especially when he is around his crew. He feels isolated and cut off from them, culturally and intellectually. He has very few friends except for Smee, his “number 2 man,” who is friendly and genial.
Hook views Smee as his confidant, sharing personal thoughts with him which is not common for a villain of Hook’s acclaim. It has also been revealed that he was heavily ostracized by others as a child, as he explains to Mr. Smee several times, resulting in him spending most of his childhood hated and alone.
Hook likes flowers and music. He plays the harpsichord despite his loss of a hand. He likes to smoke two cigars at once in a holder that has seen both stage and screen. He actually does like – and celebrates – his iron hook, and does not miss his hand at all, often stating that his children should be born with a hook instead of a hand. He uses his hook as a weapon and is quite feared because of it. He likes to keep clean, dress well, and present himself nicely. He is a dastardly villain who tries unsuccessfully to be always in good form.
We like Hook’s vulnerability, although he can’t help it, since he’s trying to be just the opposite.
At the Catch, we like to think of vulnerability as a positive character trait — something to be sought after. We have come to see human weakness as an opportunity for God’s strength.
Hook would be humiliated if he knew we liked him for his bad form — that we see so much of our own attempts at coverup in his silly antics. Poor Captain Hook: doesn’t even know he’s done us all a favor and saved us from ourselves.
You can do yourself, and the Gospel of Welcome that celebrates strength in weakness a favor by keeping the Catch strong and viable into next year with a generous year-end gift. But time is running out. The clock is still ticking, but not for long. (Some of our Catch members are in parts of the world already in 2020.) Most of you still have time.
Click on the Clock before midnight and we will receive a matching gift!
We started great; now help us finish strong. We still have a ways to go. Don’t let the clock run out on our goal!
BREAKING NEWS!
We have just found out John’s first album, the 1969 recording “Cold Cathedral” including Jesus movement classics, “Look All Around You,” “The Lord’s Prayer,” and “Road of Life” has just been remastered and will be available shortly. To celebrate its release we are offering a free download to everyone who contributes in our end-of-year campaign. Don’t miss this opportunity to get this “better than the original” mix!
Let’s ensure this message will continue to go out loud and clear by giving a generous year-end gift today.
Click on the Clock while there’s still time!
Join those who have already gotten
us over halfway to goal!
Arthur, Arlington, Virginia
Robert, Miami, Florida
Keith, Portland, Oregon
Markus, Koln, Germany
Frank, Las Vegas, Nevada
Ralph, La Habra Heights, California
Sara, Boerne, Texas
Victor, New Castle, Pennsylvania
George, Barefoot Bay, Florida
Chan, Hong Kong
Shari, Laguna Beach, California
Laura, Phoenix, Arizona
Mark, Garden City, Michigan
Merlyn, Goodyear, Arizona
Mike, Sacramento, California
Hal, Lititz, Pennsylvania
Noel, Blue Hill, Maine
Neil, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Lyn
David, Lakeville, Minnesota
Laura, Lubbock, Texas
David, Kati Kati, New Zealand
Darin, Cozad, Nebraska
Linda, Rugby Warwickshire, U.K.
Kent, Bryan, Ohio
Christopher, Edwardsville, Illinois
David, Liberty Lake, Washington
Roger, Whittier, California
Laura, Phoenix, Arizona
Paul, Wayne, Pennsylvania
Daryl
Paula, Decatur, Alabama
Linda, Bainbridge Island, Washington
William, Huntsville, Alabama
John, Cupertino, California
John, Chicago, Illinois
Tom, Washington, D.C.
Patrick, Dundee, Michigan
Lisa, Sunland, California
Joe, Sugar Land, Texas
Cynthia, Harlingen, Texas
Garry, Ozark, Arkansas
Pat & Dave, Normandy Park, Washington
Christina, Columbia, Maryland
Michael, Tucson, Arizona
Dick, East Amhurst, New York
Lewis
Mike, Cambria, California
The clock’s already running.
Join them now.
Captain Hook, that nefarious helmsman of the Jolly Roger, has but two fears. He fears a crocodile with a clock inside of it, and the boy who cut off and threw his hand to that selfsame crocodile who now wants to eat the rest of him.
