Opposites

Father's day. A day to be thankful. A day to show appreciation. A day to demonstrate your love for a special person in your life. A day set aside for him, your father.

I had a wonderful day with my family. I enjoyed the sunshine, I enjoyed and contemplated my church service, I hugged friends, I hugged family, I laughed. I talked with my little big sister.

Then.....walking around Mill Lake an hour ago I was thinking about life, and God, and the beauty of the willow trees and the children laughing. Coming around a bend I thought I saw a group of people tackling eachother, and I was thinking how fun it would be to play football.

They weren't having fun.

About 20 teenagers were in a full out brawl, shouting and cursing, pulling hair, punching, shoving. There were lots of people just walking by the fight. No one seemed to be doing anything. 3 girls broke out from the fight and headed in my direction. Bleeding, crying, cursing and pulling handfuls of hair off of her head, one of them was pretty much hysterical. I recommended that they take off and not hang around.....but the one girls ride was back there. This bleeding girl that I was now talking too was the one that had instigated the fight.

She asked me to stand there because perhaps my presence would be enough to make the others not come over. (yeah right) I stood there for a minute or two while being told her version of events.

The others found someone new to pick a fight with during that time. The 3 young girls went back to their friends. I continued my walk. The cops showed up and questioned the teens. The cursing continued. The crying continued. The blood began to dry. I had no choice but to walk by. I could do nothing.

That was a bit of a shock for me. My world was smoothly spinning round, and it collided with someone's that was spinning out of control.

Opposites. Due to choices? Personality? Faith? Age? Chance? I don't believe in chance. The concept of chance / luck (good or bad), gives no credit to God. It takes away God's power. It insinuates that God is not in control of her life and mine.

Two opposites.... why am I the one that has the 'healthy' life? Why not her?