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Landing on the Beach

Sorry for those readers who have to endure the Beatles songs playing automatically - I tried to pick one that’s not as loud in the beginning so now you have a chance to turn your speakers down and not be so shocked that you soil your pants.

Anyhow - I’ve been talking to the very distraught Son and I tried to come up with a useful analogy for every day we go through. Call it corny, call it just plain bad - if the analogy works for you, use it, if not, then discard it (this is what C.S. Lewis would say on a theological point).

Imagine that every day we are the troops landing on Normandy beach. Most of them will go out onto the beach and fall, never to fight again. Some of them will survive to make it up the cliffs and clear out the bunkers in the hill. But they only have one chance, and they must all be equally brave and honorable while doing it. But we have a great advantage over the troops - tomorrow we will get up and do it all over again. Some of us will fall more than others - day after day after day. Some of us will fall into a period of utter dismay where we will constantly fall, and we fell like giving up the fight completely.

But we cannot fall all of the time. We will eventually make it up the hill and conquer. Tomorrow we must do it yet again, but we will hopefully remember the path we took to victory.

But we can’t stay in the landing craft - no matter what we do. If we don’t jump out of the landing craft, we are sitting ducks. We have to jump into the water before us. And survive.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2a/NormandyLST.jpeg

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 27th, 2004 at 12:50 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

7 Responses to “Landing on the Beach”

  1. pete Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 8:44 am

    i think that analogy works great! nice one dave.

  2. jeremy Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 11:47 am

    analogies are fun…

  3. brian Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 12:18 pm

    bangalores!!! whoops, sorry, flashback of saving private ryan. good stuff

  4. Cedric Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 3:43 pm

    Damn Normandie, Damn the french…..

  5. Son Says:
    October 27th, 2004 at 11:30 pm

    Haha it’s all the french’s fault! j/k

    Thanks for the analogy David o’boy. You must listen to your own analogy too, remember? And go get Ms. Katherine, she’s the hill you must “conquer”! She’s going to be Mrs. Calhoun sooner or later! :)

  6. David Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 6:16 pm

    Pete - thanks :). Maybe sometimes I try to stretch military-related things to make analogies, but it seems about right.

    Jeremy - you’re wrong.

    Brian - I’ll have to watch for that next time - I had to look up bangalores on the internet to find out what they were :)

    Cedric - you’re right. :) Just kidding. You’re wrong. :) :) :)

    Son - Son oh Son, I don’t know.. I don’t even know her yet! So what will be will be I guess! But yes I’ll have to take my own advice… some other time. ::jumps off the landing craft and swims back to the ship::

  7. David Says:
    October 28th, 2004 at 6:24 pm

    I noticed my comment had too many smilies in it.. so I decided to prove who’s really boss! :
    :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

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