They are a great gift. Another great gift from their country comes in the life and ministry and Vaclav Havel, who is a light in his generation, salt of the earth. In an interview, he talked about the times in which we live, and the challenges we face in a culture that has lost its connection with God. He said that's like losing a system of coordinates. And with that loss, our world, our common and individual personality, begins to break up into incoherent fragments.
People begin to lose identity.
They lose a sense of continuity, a hierarchy of experience and values. I can relate to that image of playing for many teams. Family, work, expectations of self and others, trying to be a good vicar and husband and father and friend. We are pulled to allegiances in a variety of ways. It comes first of all with realizing that we can't do it on our own any more than a battery in a flashlight can burn forever, no matter what the Eveready rabbit tells you.