It does. You just haven't reached it yet

A man and wife get married.  The beggining of their marriage is much like a dance, elegant and beautiful.  But the dance slowly becomes a battle, until one day the man packs his things on his horse and heads out the door.  His wife yells that if he is gone for more than three days he need not come back at all, because she will be gone.  So the man leaves and travels for 2 days through the woods.  At first he is lulled into the beauty and serenity of the wood.  But after 2 days he becomes lonely and longs to be with his wife.  So he begins riding back knowing it took him 2 days to get where he is, his wife's threats ring in his head, will she truly leave, so he takes a short cut and comes across a swamp.  A young boy is standing beside the swamp and the man asks him, "Does this swamp have a hard bottom?".  The boy replies that yes, it does have a hard bottom.  So, the man coaxes his horse into entering the swamp.  A short ways into the swamp the man does not stop sinking. As he sinks deeper and deeper he turns around and asks the boy "I thought you said this swamp had a hard bottom?".  The boy replies "It does. You just haven't reached it yet."

Most of our lives we spend waiting, rather in a line, or for someone to say something, or something more substanial like graduation, or finding out about a job.  Regardless we wait.  As a christian who believes in a present working God, I wonder the purpose of the wait.  I understand that sometimes we wait in order to understand faith, but sometimes we can see the destination, we know where we are going but we still must wait for it.  Other times we spend so long trying to get our foot stable and grounded and just when we do the ground in front of us vanishes and the next foothole is nowhere to be seen.  We are left with one foot in the air balancing on one foot just praying not to fall over.  But maybe falling over is what we are suppose to do.  So we can be picked back up.  Hmmm...I dunno oh well tired of thinking.

So this past weekend was awesome.  I went down to the Land Between The Lakes in SW Kentucky for Backpacker training for Centrifuge this summer.  We spent three days out in the woods and it was pretty awesome.  Hiked just shy of 20 miles met 13 awesome people who will hopefully become friends (potential for hiking the AT at the end of the summer.)  I have discovered a few new shows I like both of which are on Tv-Links "Dresden Files" and "Dead Like Me" they are both really good. Well thats all I've got the guy on horse story came from Dead Like Me. I'll lead you with a few quotes.

"What, then, is the difference between an admirer and an imitator? An imitator is or strives to be what he admires, and an admirer keeps himself personally detached, consciously or unconsciously does not discover that what is admired involves a claim upon him, to be or at least to strive to be what is admired."
– Søren Kierkegaard, Practice in Christianity in the Essential Kierkegaard, p.383-84

“That this social order with its pauperism, famines, prisons, gallows, armies, and wars is necessary to society; that still greater disaster would ensue if this organization were destroyed; all this is said only by those who profit by this organization, while those who suffer from it – and they are ten times as numerous – think and say quite the contrary.”
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is within You

Peter and the other apostles replied: "We must obey God rather than men!
acts 5: 29