Paper Chasers

Overlooking the "quad" yesterday at UD, I watched an incredible scene unfold right before my very eyes.

A student was sitting on the bench underneath the Bell Tower. She set her three ring notebook off to her left side. She turned to view something on her right. Her left forefinger drew an "S" on the left side of her face to draw her hair back behind her ear in the afternoon breeze. Her gaze became fixated on the object to her right.

Then it happened. And when it happened, it happened with full force.

Like a Vegas Casino card dealer, the wind grabbed the unsecured papers in the three ring notebook and began dealing them with such rapid force and pace that by the time the student turned to see what was the matter, more than 50 pages had been "dealt" to the waiting hands of the green bladed grass.

She jumped up quickly as the papers ran away from her with the erraticness of a two year old toddler. She grabbed a paper here and a paper there. But in her haste she forgot to secure the rest of the notebook. As much as she was chasing papers in front of her, she was being assaulted by flying papers from behind.

That which was such a bucolic scene became pure chaos in no time!

Here's the even more amazing part of the story. As the papers flew away from this student, unbeknownst to the papers four students were running toward the papers and in less than one minute had them all corralled like sheep in a pen.

In less than 90 seconds life had gone from calm to chaos back to calm again.
Amazing!

My iWitness...

There's an abundance of angles to talk about with this story.
Here's my iWitness angle for the day...
Without the help of four other students, this student would have spent a long time getting her papers back in order.
The winds of chaos blow through our lives everyday. Let's get used to it.
But life can be much more calm when we have friends, helping hands around us to handle the chaos.
We don't have to go at it alone. That is what Christian community is all about.
Helping, supporting, praying, lifting one another up, offering a hand and collecting the runaway pages of life and helping each other put them back in order again.

Let me offer this last observation... Some of the most rewarding times in my life have been chasing down your pages. And some of the most meaningful times in my life have been allowing you to help me chase down mine... Thank you!

Let's keep chasing!

And that's my iWitness...
Laugh often and Fear not!
David!

"Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it."
(1 Corinthians 12. 27)