Finally, it looks as if Tattoo will begin a her voyage to the Caribbean and beyond. Much work has been done to get her ready and more still needs to be done this Spring for her trip later this year. Hopefully, this will be the last time she is shrink wrapped as she will travel between the Caribbean and Nova Scotia staying down south for six months and in Nova Scotia for six months.
Sometimes, I feel a sense of abdication of responsibility for deciding to go sailing. Many are telling me that I should run again for political office or stay working in a local church. I am needed they tell me and I appreciate that. It feels good.
Implicit in their comments, however, is the criticism that sailing is escaping from responsibility. This of course gets to the nub of the matter. What is it that God wants us to do in life. Is it to do good works? Certainly. But lately I have been coming to see that the prime purpose is to grow spiritually. However, I have been finding this hard to do and I think (hope) that sailing will help.
There is in modern society a diminution of the divine due to our technology. In ancient days God was big and the human creature small. Now with technology, we feel we are big. We walk down the street or better put drive down the road and we fill the universe. Consequently, God has become small in our thinking. My hope is that sailing will help rectify that imbalance and that once again the bigness, the wildness of God will grow within me and in my smallness in the face of the wind and the waves I will grow in my relationship with God.
