I grew up on Michigan lake many years ago, in a time when TV was black & white, with 2 channels only, or 3 channels if the wind was blowing from the south and if the aluminum foil on the antenna was shaped just right. Having no PC or Ipod, video games or other time stealers, many a day I sat on the end of the dock and watched the blue gill fish in the lake.

Their world was pretty predictable. Warm tepid water in summer, clear cold water in winter. An underwater world of blues, greens and black. All Michigan lake fish are colored about the same as their world. They all eat a steady diet of small bugs, other fish & small slimy things on hooks. Using a line and hook, I caught them on bread, pieces of cheese and old bologna.

This past summer, I was on a pier in Hawaii (Waikiki Beach, to be exact) watching fish while my wife shopped. Kids were fishing off the pier and an old lady with an English accent and large bag of bread crumbs created an eating frenzy of fish. Suddenly, I was hit by !!!!......( multiple choice)
A flash of insight
Holy Spirit wisdom
Gas from my lunch

Hawaiian fish live in a totally different world than do Michigan fish.

Hawaiian fish have brilliant neon colored glow in the dark colors: blazing reds, blinding yellows, electric blues, etc. Their world is coral reefs of similar colors. They live in between crashing waves riding over the reefs and in the up & downs of the tides. Their world is in constant flux, nothing staying the same but always moving, always changing.

Yet, these Hawaiian fish can be caught on a hook just like Michigan fish and even with old bread or pieces of bologna.

Hence the PoMo reflections:
Our world has changed from the one I grew up in. As much as I might long for it, it is gone or at least trapped on channel 36, “TV Land”.

Our world today is like the reefs of Hawaii.

Christ still attracts people but we have to account for the changes people are in, in order to attract them.


Oh, the analogies could go on but please, somebody else pick up on this.
Dave.