Please excuse me not having written for a while. I’ve been on holiday.
Yes thank you, a lovely time, since you ask. The weather was not as good as it could have been but was still nice but I did not get as much water skiing (I say, “water skiing, as opposed to just “skiing” because, apparently, there’s another kind) as I’d have liked.
Still, its a bonus to get back and find the water flat and the sun still shining. I may be perusaded to put on a wetsuit for my next ski though!
Anyway, enough about my leisure activities.
I am still reading “The Irresistible Revolution” STILL!? ‘Fraid so. Two small children, you see. The younger is still not sleeping through the night and so reading has become a luxury! I’m trying to listen to lots of stuff though when I’m in the car. Anyway. I’m still reading it and it is still really messing me up. In a good way. Not a comfortable way or a way that I can say I am enjoying even at all but more like when you put TCP on a spot and it really hurts but you know its doing you good!
Boy, I am rabbiting this morning!
Anyway. Here’s some more quotes to think about today.
“I had a college professor who said, ‘All around you, people will be tiptoeing through life, just to arrive at death safely. But dear children, do not tiptoe. Run, hop, skip, or dance, just don’t tiptoe.’ In my youth group days, I had seen too many wild would-be Jesus radicals fall by the wayside because they had never been trusted with the adventure of revolutionary living”
“…recently [my mother] told me,’I have come to see that we Christians are not called to safety, but we are promised that God will be with us when we are in danger, and there is no better place to be than in the hands of God.’ Perhaps the most dangerous place for a Christian to be is in safety and comfort”
It made me think. What can I say, they have a volvo. Last yearI remember a conversation in which she was involved with some waterskiing friends. We were discussing just how many things you need to be thinking about whilst you’re skiing – weight on the front foot, back arm straight, ski wide round the buoy, slow turn, wait for the ski to turn etc etc. My mother-in-law then chipped in, “and staying safe”.
It always stuck with me because, actually, when you are concerned with staying safe, you automatically adopt a defensive body position – you bend in the middle and put weight on your back foot, which actually, leaves you extremely vulnerable to injury and very likely to fall. I can vouch for this having twice broken ribs skiing.
Actually, much of teaching waterkskiing is about teaching people to overcome their natural inclination to stay safe. That is why it is so unnatural (as if be dragged across the water at 60mph on a stick wasn’t unnatural enough anyway!) If you concentrate on trusting what you are told and skiing properly and do not worry about staying safe – then that is the safest way to ski.
So, stay safe!
