Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Self Protection

In Karen Mains excellent "Tales of the Kingdom" (I highly recommend both the book and the series for children and adults - the stories are good, the illustrations exceptional), Scarboy always covers the scar on his face with his hand when he's with other people - even if they are working together. Obviously this hurts his ability to help, until he is encouraged to use two hands when sawing wood - and it feels so good.

Metaphorically, I wonder how many of us have at least one spiritual hand covering our scars, our weaknesses, our problems - and how this hinders our walk with and ministry for the Lord.

This Sunday's Myth Busters message is, "I Have to Protect Myself - Not!" Hope to see you there.

2 comments:

Qtpies7 said...

I'm looking forward to it!
Pray for us, we've been sick every weekend for 4 or 5 weeks now. Big time sick, 103-104 temps. Donnie is on his 4th day of being sick this week, can't even work.

Grandma J said...

That does sound interesting, unfortunately, we will not be there this Sunday. We will be attending Lamson E Free for their 100th Anniversary reunion festivities. Perhaps I can catch your sermon online??? So far, the only service I've seen on the website is the July 20th one.