We found an interesting thing while in Honduras at one of the little towns where we had a clinic. I think it was the last day, Veracruz. At lunch, we walked over to the beach - I think the town was a shipping village at one point - and found a few boats. I didn't realize it at first, but someone else did. One of the boats was made from a single tree. It was carved out and formed - I can only assume by hand. It was pretty amazing. The boat was once a tree, a whole tree. But it wasn't cut down and stripped up and processed and put back together. It was whole - carved out to remove the excess, but prepared for a purpose - a whole purpose. I wonder about the value of that, the value of being whole, the excess removed, prepared for a purpose. Could we too, not gain from that same preparation, that same formation, instead of simply being processed piecemeal...
Friday, May 23, 2008
Just one tree
We found an interesting thing while in Honduras at one of the little towns where we had a clinic. I think it was the last day, Veracruz. At lunch, we walked over to the beach - I think the town was a shipping village at one point - and found a few boats. I didn't realize it at first, but someone else did. One of the boats was made from a single tree. It was carved out and formed - I can only assume by hand. It was pretty amazing. The boat was once a tree, a whole tree. But it wasn't cut down and stripped up and processed and put back together. It was whole - carved out to remove the excess, but prepared for a purpose - a whole purpose. I wonder about the value of that, the value of being whole, the excess removed, prepared for a purpose. Could we too, not gain from that same preparation, that same formation, instead of simply being processed piecemeal...
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Very true. Just think about a single day in our lives... We attempt to pull together a single picture of the world from a zillion emails, multiple conversations, news clips, sports updates, crying children, talks with our wives and everything else that is going on... I feel like life is often pulling together a zillion different things. Is there a way to minimize the inputs?
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