We took the kids skiing today and had a blast. It was an eventful day at Frost Fire ski hill in North Dakota. We went with our Senior Pastor’s wife Ruth and their kids Nathan and Larissa. Matthew, Caleb, Nathan and Larissa spent the better part of the day taking snowboarding lessons (which they loved). They picked it up pretty fast.
I have not been skiing in 17 years but it came back like it was yesterday – what a great time. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. I have absolutely no caution at all on the hills – its all about speed and risk…I hit every run (I will regret it tomorrow).
Itsy managed to get her tube pointed in the wrong direction and promptly sped into the parking lot right into the back of a car where she ended up with a bloody nose and a loose tooth. She wasn’t too keen on tubing after that (than she wanted to ski).
Mu Jin (our Korean exchange student) and I spent most of the day together – he boarded and I skiied.
“It was important to fight, and fight again and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated.”
From a Biblical perspective this works quite well – we are clearly called to battle evil but at the same time told that only Christ in the end will eradicate it finally. This can be a difficult thing to understand – that we are to fight something we have no power to overcome on our own – however that is not the point…the point is when we see injustice we are called to fight it because it is wrong…not because we can beat it.
Harnessing Chaos 