Peoria Times
February 10, 2022
RELIGION
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Harvest CHurCH 10935 W. Olive Ave. Peoria 85345 Phone (623) 972-8479 office@westolive.com www.westolive.com
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Have you ever noticed that two people can look at the same event and both see something completely different? Let me illustrate this idea with the diary of the wife and her husband about the same event. Wife’s diary: “Tonight, I thought my husband was acting weird. We had made plans to meet at a nice restaurant for dinner. I was shopping with my friends all day long, so I thought he was upset that I was a bit late, but he made no comment about it. The conversation wasn’t flowing, so I suggested that we go somewhere quiet to talk. “I asked him what was wrong, and he said nothing. I asked him if it was my fault that he was upset. He said he wasn’t upset and that it had nothing to do with me and not to worry about it. On the way home, I told him that I
“Now the doctor faces a worse dilemma than when his helicopter touched down. He would like to treat 44,998 more people but has already expended all his resources on the first two bodies presented to him. He decides that the only solution is to make himself even more available. He resolves that he and his staff will push themselves harder. They will be on call 20 hours a day, seven days a week, to treat as many individuals as possible. “Unfortunately, this well-intentioned medic returned home a few weeks later. His body has not kept pace with his desire to help. With his resistance lowered, he caught one of the diseases rampant in the disaster area. The care he and his exhausted team provided came to a standstill until replacements arrived. “Meanwhile, what is the second medical team doing? Their preliminary assessment, likewise, takes only a matter of moments. They also are
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into feelings and conclusions without logic is like jumping off a cliff. The outcome for you and others can be devastating. “Go with me to a country just hit by a devastating earthquake, where 45,000 people are injured or dead. Two medical teams, each headed by a doctor, are being airlifted to the heart of the disaster area. “The physician leading the first crew steps out of the helicopter and is immediately overwhelmed by all the carnage he sees. There, barely 10 paces away, workers pull a mangled living body from under the rubble. Moved by compassion, the doctor rushes over and calculates the personnel, equipment and facilities needed to help this victim. He assigns half his medical team and half their supplies to work on this one person. “A handful of survivors, sensing the availability to help, bring the physician another case. This victim is in even worse condition. The doctor assigns the rest of his medical team and resources to care for this person.
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CONNECTION
Pastor Ed Delph
loved him. He smiled slightly and kept driving. I can’t explain his behavior. I don’t know why he didn’t say, ‘I love you, too.’ “When we arrived home, I felt I had lost him completely. He just sat there quietly and watched TV. Finally, with silence all around us, I decided to go to bed. About 15 minutes later, he came to bed. But I still felt that he was distracted and his thoughts were somewhere else. He fell asleep. I cried. I didn’t know what to do. My life is a disaster.” Husband’s diary: “A 2-foot putt! Who the H-E-double-hockey-sticks misses a 2-foot putt?” I thought this story would be appropriate for Phoenicians for this week’s Phoenix Open golf tournament. Can you imagine what a professional golfer’s spouse goes through? Here is a story that Carl George told many years ago at a conference I attended. It takes us beyond the tyranny of the urgent or the tyranny of raw emotions into real, tangible and lasting solutions. So often, jumping
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