By Pieter Hendriks
wae, Pastor of the
_ Christian Reformed Church
OW HIS book Escape from
Reason, Francis A, Schaeffer
- Wrote in 1968 that a period in
aS history has arrived that could
“be, characterized as post-
everything,
‘> Since then many institutions
te have. begun to systematically
reject a number of the very
valuable nineteenth and
twentietli century. norms,
lues* “and truths, without
eyed ‘teplacing © them with new
= ce truths — other than efforts to |
“ Feach the ultimate dream of
man to be free,
“Over the years many have
“Found out that taking drugs
"was the only (very short-lived)
“Way to at least have a taste of
~.. + being free. .
~~. "The real reason, however, for
taking drugs was to escape
"from fear and worries, Many
+ today: are trying to ‘escape
“from fear and worries in their
"lives, and they may do it in
: different’ ways.
_ About a year ago the well
a Anown “heavy metal musician
- ° Kurt’ Cobain’ shocked the
world by taking his own life.
Half a year after his death
‘three teenagers made their big
* decision to go for a last ride.
They. left Quebec and finally
‘stopped their car in a storage

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dead in their young lives. It

was -there they committed
suicide.

- Tn the journal they had kept,

they admitted how much they
loved death metal music, that

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One sister revealed in an in-
terview that many kids live
with great fear for the future:
many don’t see much of a fu-
ture for themselves as there is
No guarantee at all to get either
a decent job or real happiness.

This one sister also admitted
that she had, like so many
others, a suicide bomb ticking
inside her. We are all so
Stressed out, she said,

At the beginning of summer

vacation many here in Terrace
may feel a sense of freedom
—— no classes you have to go
to.

However, there may be

others who don’t feel free.
: They still feel their fear and
“worries which they try to hide
. from others, even from their
friends.

Not only kids but some
grown-ups too may struggle

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lated sensations which don’t
s¢em to go away.

The question comes “up

repeatedly. Is there any escape
from fear, and from seeing
yourself as a failure? The ans-
wer is yes!

the present post-modern no-

tion that there are no absolute -

truths,

Attempts ta reason God out
of existence does not mean He
is dead, In fact God is alive,
and so is His Son Jesus Christ
who came into the world to
provide the one route of es-
cape from all sorts of despair-
ing dead ends.

The suggestion made here is’
that anyone who wants to en-
joy real life, life without dead

_ ends, puts in some effort to get
to know Jesus.

One bill board in B.C. reads,
Knowing Jesus is Knowing
Peace, How true! Enjoy a nice
and peaceful summer,

The above column i is one ina
series of articles from the Ter-
tace Ministerial Association
and expresses the views of the
author.

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