The Right Tack

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Against The Wind 

By Norman Kissinger

We four brothers grew up on the Southern Oregon coast. I still ultimately consider that home. I enjoy visiting the ocean when I get a chance because it's such a big part of my past. I never really got to be on the ocean when I was younger; a couple of times I believe. But I've always been interested in sailing. My favorite book when I was a kid was about a 16 year old who sailed around the world on a boat called the "Dove" back in the early 1960s. He was featured in National Geographic at the time. So I did a lot of study about sailing even though I never pursued it. My understanding of sailing is that it's possible to almost sail directly into the wind by doing something called tacking. Basically you go across the wind slightly in the direction that you want to go by setting your sails a certain way and zigzag back and forth and by doing so you can actually sail almost directly into the wind. Obviously this slows down your travel but it's still possible to go in almost any direction regardless of the wind. As I stated I can't claim to be an expert about sailing. But I do think that tacking is an important spiritual concept. Every Christian has been frustrated by their limitations of circumstes and wish that things were different. Or they wish that certain trials were not harassing them. How many times do we go to God crying for him to change the situation and frustratingly He simply does not. But I find that often God is using the wind that seems to be coming from the same direction that I'm supposed to go in order to change me. It's not the direction of the wind it is the set of my sails. God is actually using the circumstances to train me to be effective in moving in whatever direction I need to go regardless of what direction the wind is blowing. I pray for the wind to change when I should be setting my sails to move in the direction God would have me to go. Sometimes in life the wind is full to our back. Sometimes it's off to the side. Sometimes it blows in our face, but regardless it is only important what direction our Captain wants us to go and how efficient we are at setting the sails. A good sailor can sail in any direction and a mature Christian can become what God wants he or she to be regardless of circumstances-or the direction of the wind.

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