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creeping across his sun-weathered face. “I do not know<br />
those things.” “Then, your life has been at least 50% in<br />
vain!” The mathematician retorted.<br />
The four sat in silence for awhile, when suddenly the waves<br />
began to rise up furiously; the sky turned dark, obscuring<br />
the blanket of stars. The boat - thin and wooden - began<br />
to rock back and forth, up and down, with each thrust of<br />
the waves. The boatman fought diligently, using every<br />
muscle in his body, every skill he had to regain control over<br />
his boat. But the storm was winning the fight, and with<br />
each surge of the waves, the boatman became more and<br />
more convinced that the boat could not withstand this<br />
beating. As a wave lifted the boat high into the air, the<br />
boatman asked his passengers, “Do you know how to swim?”<br />
“NO!!!” they all cried at once. The wave dropped the boat,<br />
upside down, back in the raging water. The boatman<br />
watched sadly as the scientist, the philosopher and the<br />
mathematician drowned. “Well,” he whispered “I think 100%<br />
of your lives have been in vain.”<br />
In this life, there are so many things to learn, so many<br />
things people say are important. Education is, of course,<br />
quite important. A doctor cannot operate if she doesn’t<br />
know where the organs are, or how to sew a wound back<br />
up again. A scientist cannot perform experiments unless<br />
he knows which chemicals to use, and how much of each.<br />
An architect cannot design buildings without knowing<br />
what foundations and support are necessary.<br />
However, in the big picture, these are not the lessons or<br />
the education that truly liberate us. It is not this knowl-<br />
edge that saves us from drowning in the ocean. Only the<br />
knowledge of God can do that. Only love for Him, devotion<br />
to Him, and a life-vest inflated by Him can protect us<br />
in the raging sea of this world. For, many times in life, we<br />
feel like we are drowning. Many times we feel like we<br />
have swallowed so much water we can’t breathe. It may<br />
seem as though our legs cannot possibly tread water for<br />
another minute.<br />
At times like this we tend to turn to what we already know<br />
- more education, the acquisition of more possessions, the<br />
fulfillment of more sense pleasures. However, perhaps it<br />
is these that have caused our boat to capsize in the first<br />
place. Perhaps the ominous waves of the ocean are actually<br />
made up of our insatiable desires, of our purely academic<br />
educations, of our disregard for the Supreme Power<br />
behind and within everything.<br />
Instead of making ourselves heavier and heavier, in which<br />
case we will surely drown, we must turn to the light, everpresent<br />
life vest around our bodies. It is knowledge of God,<br />
of how to truly live that will save us. The boatman knew<br />
how to see the stars; he knew how to watch God play in<br />
the light; he knew how to remain calm and serene even<br />
when challenged and insulted. He knew how to really<br />
swim.<br />
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