Yesterday, the Emerging Scholars Network kicked off a Worldview Question-and-Answer series withJames W. Sire.* As I have considered the development of Sire’s thought on worldview, I have come to even more deeply embrace the importance of how one’s life story is understood in the context of God’s Story, such as what Sire shares in his newly e-published memoir Rim of the Sandhills (2012).
In Chapter 3, he writes:
My imagination did not need to be the source of other experiences of the holy. Once Marjorie and I came home from school in early spring. The weather was warm and we were carrying our jackets. We had already ridden a couple of miles when we heard a tremendous roar coming from the valley ahead of us. “What is that?†I exclaimed, a bit frightened. When we reached the top of the hill above our house, there below us in the valley, Eagle Creek, bloated with water from the melting ice upstream, stretched out like a lake. Ahead of us, Honey Creek spread wide and sparkled in the declining sun. Even after heavy rains, I had never seen the Honey and the Eagle so full of water.
When we reached the house, my terrified mother explained it all. An ice dam from the breakup of the winter freeze had formed a few hundred yards above our house. It would not long remain in place. If it broke to the south, our house and barn and outbuildings would be saved. If it broke to the north, we would be flooded. That, however, was not her present concern.
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