2108) I know someone who was telling me about when he was a Jr. High gym teacher.  

He described a winter when the school’s football field was covered in snow with a top layer of ice.  

He got the idea of getting out sleds and sheets and urging the kids to hold up the sheets while on the sleds and letting the wind blow them across the field.  

Good idea, right? Well, he didn’t think of the fact that wind on coastal Maine can be fierce and when the kids got on their sleds and held up the sheets; they were blown right into the goal posts and the fence on the far side of the fields.  

It probably would have served my friend well to save the sheets for what they were made to do rather than change their purpose.  

This memory came to mind when I read Mark 2:27. Here, Jesus said the purpose of the Sabbath is to give people a time for rest, rejuvenation and time with God.  

It is not to be used as something we need to cater to, controlling all the things we do. It is not our commander whose lists of Do and Not Do should be rigidly adhered to like the Pharisees in Jesus’ day dictated.

When we lose the purpose of something and change it, we can be blown into places that can cause great damage.