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creeping across his sun-weathered face. “I do not know
those things.” “Then, your life has been at least 50% in
vain!” The mathematician retorted.
The four sat in silence for awhile, when suddenly the waves
began to rise up furiously; the sky turned dark, obscuring
the blanket of stars. The boat - thin and wooden - began
to rock back and forth, up and down, with each thrust of
the waves. The boatman fought diligently, using every
muscle in his body, every skill he had to regain control over
his boat. But the storm was winning the fight, and with
each surge of the waves, the boatman became more and
more convinced that the boat could not withstand this
beating. As a wave lifted the boat high into the air, the
boatman asked his passengers, “Do you know how to swim?”
“NO!!!” they all cried at once. The wave dropped the boat,
upside down, back in the raging water. The boatman
watched sadly as the scientist, the philosopher and the
mathematician drowned. “Well,” he whispered “I think 100%
of your lives have been in vain.”
In this life, there are so many things to learn, so many
things people say are important. Education is, of course,
quite important. A doctor cannot operate if she doesn’t
know where the organs are, or how to sew a wound back
up again. A scientist cannot perform experiments unless
he knows which chemicals to use, and how much of each.
An architect cannot design buildings without knowing
what foundations and support are necessary.
However, in the big picture, these are not the lessons or
the education that truly liberate us. It is not this knowl-
edge that saves us from drowning in the ocean. Only the
knowledge of God can do that. Only love for Him, devotion
to Him, and a life-vest inflated by Him can protect us
in the raging sea of this world. For, many times in life, we
feel like we are drowning. Many times we feel like we
have swallowed so much water we can’t breathe. It may
seem as though our legs cannot possibly tread water for
another minute.
At times like this we tend to turn to what we already know
- more education, the acquisition of more possessions, the
fulfillment of more sense pleasures. However, perhaps it
is these that have caused our boat to capsize in the first
place. Perhaps the ominous waves of the ocean are actually
made up of our insatiable desires, of our purely academic
educations, of our disregard for the Supreme Power
behind and within everything.
Instead of making ourselves heavier and heavier, in which
case we will surely drown, we must turn to the light, everpresent
life vest around our bodies. It is knowledge of God,
of how to truly live that will save us. The boatman knew
how to see the stars; he knew how to watch God play in
the light; he knew how to remain calm and serene even
when challenged and insulted. He knew how to really
swim.
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