Stretched Splendor
Theme of the Week: Peace Under Pressure
Sunday, October 16, 2005
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Who Said It…Randy Rowland
Randy Rowland is lead pastor of Sanctuary, an emerging church in Seattle, Washington. He has served as the public address announcer for the Seattle Seahawks. Randy is also president of Sound Images, Inc., a media and marketing consulting and production firm. He has taught at Seattle Pacific University's School of Business and Economics, Fuller Theological Seminary, and Pacific School of Religion. Randy calls himself a water dog.
What He Said…Stretched Splendor
Peace isn't passive or wimpy; it's brilliantly powerful. Peace is having everything in its right place, being used toward its right purpose.
Sailboats are equipped with numerous sails for different purposes. Unused sails are stored in nylon bags in a locker. But are stored sails at peace? I don't think so. They're just sidelined fabric. A sail is at peace when it's unfurled, trimmed by the winch, and stretched to its maximum by a turn into the wind. Every grommet and rope on that sail is being yanked at magnum force. The material of the sail strains as it meets its destiny.
A good sail, well deployed, is a vision of peace. It possesses beauty in spite of the savage forces pulling it at every corner. Its beauty comes from its wholeness and purpose. You never look out on the water at a colorful spinnaker on a fast-moving sailboat and think, Oh that poor thing, just look at the stress it's under, being pulled from all directions. What you do think is, Wow! That's beautiful.
Adapted from Sins We Love (Doubleday, 2000) by permission.
Copyright © 2005 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.Click here for reprint information on Men of Integrity.
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