Sidebar: Goals Can’t Be Made by Figure Skating
June 17, 2010 by 300shindefense441 |
Once again, hockey has given me some spiritual insight. After being allowed only one puck and having twenty some kids try and steal it from you, controlling the puck is essential to retaining possession. The same applies to the truth – once you know it, many adversaries will try to take it from you. Perseverance matters.
Putting on the full armor of hockey is similar to putting on the full armor of HVHY. Without the helmet on, you still are vulnerable – not wearing a helmet qualifies as stupidity, not faith. Hockey’s goal is to work with your teammates to pass the puck ( think of the puck as a TORAH fact ) around. The enemy doesn’t want this to happen – we have to learn how to protect the puck – how to keep the commandments of HVHY. Hockey is a game of collision and confrontation with unpredictable motion and circumstances – as it is in the rink, so it is in the spiritual realm.
Sadly, we live in a world of mostly spiritual figure skaters. No helmet of salvation, no full armor to defend against attack. Figure skaters are the ‘look at me’ bunch as they twirl around on the same false doctrines year after year. They have planned moves and are not ready to make decisions based on an opponent’s tactics. They have nothing to guard and protect other than their own body and their ice time. The TORAH, the sobering puck of truth, is nowhere to be found in a figure skating competition. Mishandling a puck can be dangerous to your team or your adversary, and even those in the spectator section. Referees are supposed to aid in keeping the game in control; figure skaters don't even have referees. There’s no blessing of protection when you fail in figure skating – there may be no one to help you up or in the case of couples skating, your partner may just blame you for making him or her look bad but they are too blind to think they often look evil in their attire and movements. . Accusations will abound. Its subjective in competition and success is based on whether or not others ‘like’ what you are doing. Same old routines, same old moves, on and on year after year. Only the costumes, the dress code, and the music changes. Outward appearance is everything. On the rare occasion a token enemy attacks they are left defenseless and emotionally wounded. Remember Nancy Kerrigan? Enough said. Some figure skaters have had their ‘show’ fall apart and just quit and walk off the ice.
Not so in hockey. Players are unrecognizable in full gear – its not about how we look. Our heads are covered, are physical attributes are masked by our game gear until we are challenged by an opponent. Then we, and others, see openly what we are made of. We are often numbered and carry team logos and set into divisions – just like the tribes of Israel. We carry a team or a tribe name, but additionally are able to be known by name. People know who we are – no mistaking a hockey player in full gear. We play to protect our goalie’s body, Messiah, and to attack the adversary’s goal with the Word of Truth- HVHY’s Laws. Real holy angels have to strive to get the Word into enemy territory if we want to defeat ignorance. We play by the rules or land in the penalty box AKA the ‘sin bin’. When we fail to live by HVHY’s rules, we suffer the consequences and lose our active duty status for a season – we are no longer able to help our team, we only leave them to do more of the work that needs to be done. I’ve never seen a hockey team quit and walk of the ice just because they are shorthanded or losing.
My personal goals? That I may be part of a nation called ' Team Israel' that is so well protected it's obvious; that I become skilled in movement against faceless and faithless enemies ; I strive to continually keep my eyes and ears open to the location and actions of my teammates to learn from them and them from me. I desire to maintain control and possession of the puck, the Torah, the Word of HVHY or watch others do so with respect for natural law. I work hard in battles which are preordained by HaShem. I rest and condition when not under attack as prescribed in the TORAH by my Messiah and my God.
There was a unique Russian cartoon avaiable below but it became 'unavailable'.
It may be a while before Ephraim stops figure skating and moving around in circles that look good but are ultimately defenseless. In the meantime, we of the Noah mindset and Israeli genre are gaining skills and upgrading our equipment with the free gift of TORAH. Its mandatory if we really are ‘in the game’, that we reveal our faith with works that are not contrary to the TORAH. It does take faith to just get on the ice on any kind of skates, but only hockey has the component that makes it necessary to react to attacks and to move the puck of Truth around in spite of continual attacks. Figure skating would not accomplish my goal of mastery over my anxiety and stress attacks – learning to play hockey has me well on the way to tackling that very task at hand as given to me by my Messiah.
He has not given me more than I can stick handle yet. Dead humans don’t play hockey.
There’s plenty of protective gear to go around.
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