Frogger
Journal 2005 03 31
Frogger
Warm, mild and windy on the prairie today. Ice continues to race down the Missouri. The Indians in an early version of the old video game “Frogger” are able to jump from “ice cake” to “ice cake” in pursuit of the buffalo drowned while crossing the thinning ice upstream. Imagine hopping on chunks ice moving swiftly downstream hoping to somehow latch onto a 2000 pound animal and then dragging your catch to shore! Makes any job seem pretty harmless and simple to perform doesn’t it? And no mention is made if any of the Indians were lost to the river and swept away to their demise.
Again, the prairie on both sides of the river is ablaze as the Indians set fire to the grass that has been under snow all winter. They know that burning the land causes grass to grow that is attractive to buffalo and good for their horses. We mentioned earlier that scientists believe this practice is the reason for the absence of trees on the prairie and the vast expanse of grassland.
The Indians saw opportunity rushing by them with the spring breakup of ice and figured out a way to capture that opportunity.
Do you see opportunity passing by just out of your reach? Is it beyond your grasp because of the personal peril required to catch it? Is it because capturing it requires more skill than you possess? Do you need strength beyond that which is inherent in you?
I can’t stand watching video of the fine rifles and shotguns being destroyed in Australia and England. I want to rescue each one from the saw and smelter. I don’t even like watching a junkyard magnet pick up a vintage car and dump it into the crusher.
When God opens our eyes to humanity and the stream of individuals flowing past us do we have that same sense of lost opportunity that the Indians had when watching buffalo float by?
Somehow we feel like the lost souls in the flowing stream of humanity are beyond our ability to grab hold of and pull to the safety of the shore. And they may be in our current level of vision, strength and skill. Can we ask Jesus, whom we are co-laborers with, to teach us to dance on the “ice cakes” with nimbleness that we didn’t think we possessed so we might rescue some? Can we ask Him to give us strength to step into the power of the mass of humanity and stand against the flow and rescue lost individuals? Can we ask Him to teach us the skills to negotiate the dangers that the press of humanity bring and in so doing rescue lost people?
If the people of the plains could do it to gain the simple prizes of meat and a robe how much more so should we be willing to risk stepping into the river of life that greater treasure would be retrieved?
Frogger
Warm, mild and windy on the prairie today. Ice continues to race down the Missouri. The Indians in an early version of the old video game “Frogger” are able to jump from “ice cake” to “ice cake” in pursuit of the buffalo drowned while crossing the thinning ice upstream. Imagine hopping on chunks ice moving swiftly downstream hoping to somehow latch onto a 2000 pound animal and then dragging your catch to shore! Makes any job seem pretty harmless and simple to perform doesn’t it? And no mention is made if any of the Indians were lost to the river and swept away to their demise.
Again, the prairie on both sides of the river is ablaze as the Indians set fire to the grass that has been under snow all winter. They know that burning the land causes grass to grow that is attractive to buffalo and good for their horses. We mentioned earlier that scientists believe this practice is the reason for the absence of trees on the prairie and the vast expanse of grassland.
The Indians saw opportunity rushing by them with the spring breakup of ice and figured out a way to capture that opportunity.
Do you see opportunity passing by just out of your reach? Is it beyond your grasp because of the personal peril required to catch it? Is it because capturing it requires more skill than you possess? Do you need strength beyond that which is inherent in you?
I can’t stand watching video of the fine rifles and shotguns being destroyed in Australia and England. I want to rescue each one from the saw and smelter. I don’t even like watching a junkyard magnet pick up a vintage car and dump it into the crusher.
When God opens our eyes to humanity and the stream of individuals flowing past us do we have that same sense of lost opportunity that the Indians had when watching buffalo float by?
Somehow we feel like the lost souls in the flowing stream of humanity are beyond our ability to grab hold of and pull to the safety of the shore. And they may be in our current level of vision, strength and skill. Can we ask Jesus, whom we are co-laborers with, to teach us to dance on the “ice cakes” with nimbleness that we didn’t think we possessed so we might rescue some? Can we ask Him to give us strength to step into the power of the mass of humanity and stand against the flow and rescue lost individuals? Can we ask Him to teach us the skills to negotiate the dangers that the press of humanity bring and in so doing rescue lost people?
If the people of the plains could do it to gain the simple prizes of meat and a robe how much more so should we be willing to risk stepping into the river of life that greater treasure would be retrieved?
posted by @2007 Dick Cinkovich | 11:02 PM
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