Thursday, July 28, 2005

Lily pads from CoffeeSwirls...

Doug McHone posted the following at CoffeeSwirls today.

Lily Pads and “The World”

There is a game at the community pool that requires great skill and dexterity. To meet the goal of the game, you need patience and timing, balance and the ability to use imbalance, and just a pinch of luck. It is a game we only know as the lily pads, and the objective of this game is to not get wet. You scurry (some even run) across the floating pads and try not to fall into the water. I have no idea why it is so popular with the kids. On a hot day, I want nothing more than to jump into some water! But no, there is a certain pride in having dry swim trunks.

Isn’t there a certain parallel between this game and the way Christians live their lives? We can easily fall into the trap of making a timed leap from one goal to the next, always trying to land in the middle of dryness, never falling into the world around us. So we only play on the church softball league and we only listen to the Christian radio stations (and Rush Limbaugh. Mustn’t forget Rush!), we avoid the corner of the convenience store where the beer is displayed and are never found anywhere near a tattoo parlor, heaven forbid! Why, what would Jesus think if we were to be seen in such places? Worse yet, what would the people we know from church think if they saw us there? What would Jesus do?

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