Life Lessons
For 25 years, Diane and I taught in the Youth and Family Ministry of the Pioneer Valley Church of Christ in Western Ma. We would often utilize in our class, group challenges and alternative games to get to know the groups as well as the individuals.
I love the Bible and what it teaches and equally how it teaches. I have come to appreciate what matters most, is unseen. Furthermore, I have come to love the metaphorical teaching style of Jesus. Here are some of the thoughts and lessons resulting from time spent with KINDNESS. Enjoy!
-Dave
KINDNESS & Storms
At this point KINDNESS has carried Diane and I over 2500 nautical miles. We all have our own life journey to get to who and where we are and many have figuratively travelled. considerably further distances than the KINDNESS crew. So question, “What is better, the journey or the destination?” I’ll argue it is neither the journey or the destination, it is the company kept.
KINDNESS & Patience
Love is patient… and I’m not. This reminds me of a famous quote from the movie Rudy, where a priest consoling Rudy promotes two incontrovertible facts, “There is a God… and I’m not Him.”
KINDNESS & Restoring
Challenges. What are challenges? They are obstacles, bumps in the road toward a perceived goal. They take away a piece of ourselves, creating a void to be filled with something better, more meaningful. They refine us. They purify our authority in this world so we can be worthy of a great calling. Out with the old and in with new.
KINDNESS & Confused Seas
Definition
confused sea - (oceanography) A highly disturbed water surface without a single, well-defined direction of wave travel.
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