The ride from Regina to Kindersley began at 3:40 — I arrived back at 7:40. Keeping the speed limit all the way!
My days have been very relaxing and hope-filled. As pastors, we met to discuss our lives and to review a current church survey called “REVEAL.” Great stuff. I still need to process some, but the initial ideas are thrilling. Maybe you’ll hear a bit in the coming weeks.
So, unpacking done — now I’m just unwinding!
Today we talked of the 5th S – from Sea to Sea. Really just a reworking of what is the work of the church in Canada!
Now, I’m relaxing. Hopefully this work time will also afford a bit of time to unwind and refocus. So far, so good!!
So, early this morning we were warned on the news that a convoy was headed our way. Almost thirty feet wide (maybe a little exaggerated), 3 stories high and over 300 feet long (again, evangelistically speaking). Regardless, they were to start early in the morning so that not a lot of traffic would be blocked. The convoy would make it to Rosetown (an hour down the road) today, and tomorrow scurry on towards Kindersley.
Meanwhile, I’m planning on driving past Rosetown on my way to Regina, Saskatchewan. And hoping I won’t meet the “convoy”.
OK, it was a bit of a letdown. The convoy was really trucks warning of the load coming, along with the one “truck” carrying the part for the oilfield. Not to say that the part was not massive. If anything, it was humungous. My Dodge Neon could never have pulled the load. In fact, it would have been squashed under one of it’s wheels.
Enough description. Here’s the picture! Oh, they borrowed a road in Rosetown to park it overnight!!
Yesterday I had a great discussion with my son over the use of “insignificant” in my morning sermon. I had said that people are insignificant.
OK, I’d like to qualify that statement. But more often than not, the sermon is not about what you intended to say, but what someone actually thought you said. My son felt I had said that people are not valuable, and that we have no reason to continue life if we are not significant!
I believe people are invaluable in God’s sight. Each of us is created in God’s image and for that reason alone none of us are insignificant. But, few people remain known to history after a century or a millenium of time. In that sense most of our lives will be insignificant on the scale of human history — as recorded and kept by the archives of the world (a little plug for the greater funding of archives!!).
This is a discussion that has been ongoing for years. The “royal history” which “older historians” recorded was excoriated (flayed verbally, denounced) by a new generation of historians. The “new world” of history would be about the peasant and the man on the street.
Obama was about the man on the street. And guess whose history will be recorded? The plumber or Obama? Strange way we have of remembering who is significant.
But God keeps a record that is perpetual and forever of each and every person, and God can access that record at any time.
So, you are significant in God’s eyes, but maybe not so much in the world’s eyes.