Barnabas File

I rarely use maps anymore but have become very dependent on a GPS.   When the voice directs me to make a turn on road that isn’t there, I realize that my unit has not been updated recently.   It may be a cutting edge technology, but I should avoid mistaking what is in its software for reality! Alan Roxburgh introduced me to the idea that we should not mistake the map for reality. Our maps—whether paper or digital—are only representations of reality that lack the richness and vitality of the real world.   When we mistake the representation for the real thing, we miss the real joy of the journey. We should reexamine periodically the maps we use to help us interpret the world.   Early on in our marriage, I discovered that my wife and I had different ideas about how housekeeping duties should be addressed.   Neither of us were right or wrong, we had just been raised to think that the wife does certain things and that the husband does other things—but thos...