In this lesson, Paul is going to talk about waves. He was familiar with those, and it is a relevant analogy because life can be like an ocean, one churned by unseen winds. Seen or not the winds are felt by the rafts of our lives, and there is a rocky shoreline never too far away. How can we avoid being smashed and torn, stranded and sunk on those breakers? They are not idly called breakers.
On top of this seeming to buzz around us like waverunners are those who will tell us how to interpret life’s ups and downs. “Follow me,” they shout from nearby, “I can show you a way between the cliffs.” Then between their words, you keep thinking that you hear thumps and crashes like the waverunners are not turning out to be very successful. If they, with motors, cannot steadily navigate life how can we on rafts?
Lydia, my firstborn, is wrapping up her final months at Truett McConnell University, a Christian university in North Georgia. Next year she will take up her profession as a teacher, and the arc of her life will enter a new phase. Some of life’s waves are behind her; more waves are yet to come.
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