Forging Relationships
Journal 2005 01 11
“Forging” Relationships
The heart of winter on the prarie. Forty degrees below zero the previous night. Always cold. A teenage Indian boy, in an apparent attempt to prove his manhood, sets out to kill a bison and ends up at the Fort being treated for severe frostbite.
Village life in primitive structures really is not all that different than ours today if you look at the people, not their accommodations. Relationships rule the day. As the forge of the two blacksmiths are in constant use making and repairing items useful to living, the forge of the human heart is at work making friendships, creating bonds of trust and joining spirits for brotherly love.
Winter should be a time when we can brood over one another as external circumstances require internal activities. We would do it if we were forced to. Can we do it in the midst of our ability to insulate ourselves from the restrictions of weather and length of days?
“Forging” Relationships
The heart of winter on the prarie. Forty degrees below zero the previous night. Always cold. A teenage Indian boy, in an apparent attempt to prove his manhood, sets out to kill a bison and ends up at the Fort being treated for severe frostbite.
Village life in primitive structures really is not all that different than ours today if you look at the people, not their accommodations. Relationships rule the day. As the forge of the two blacksmiths are in constant use making and repairing items useful to living, the forge of the human heart is at work making friendships, creating bonds of trust and joining spirits for brotherly love.
Winter should be a time when we can brood over one another as external circumstances require internal activities. We would do it if we were forced to. Can we do it in the midst of our ability to insulate ourselves from the restrictions of weather and length of days?
posted by @2007 Dick Cinkovich | 12:07 AM
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