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Saturday, May 16, 1992

How will we ever see the face

Recently MacLean’s maga-
zine had as its cover story title
“Seeing the Face of God”.

The story referred the dis-
covery of what appears to be
proof of the “Big Bang” theory
of the way the universe was
created. From the time of Dar-
win until very recently, and
still in some circles, science
and religion have seem to have
been at odds. Now, however,
science seems about to give us
scientific proof of a truth that
millions have -understood as
poetic truth, that is the story
of creation and more impor-
tantly of the awesome experi-
ence of the Creator.

In discovering the “how” of
the Universe, they recognize a
“Who”.

We cannot help but applaud
these men and women for their
research and knowledge. But
what about us, we who are not
trained to see and hear these
phenomena first hand?

How shall we, in this world
of “seeing is believing”, see the
face of God?

Christians believe and see
the face of God, not through
science, but through story. We

see the face of God in a first
century Jew, named Jesus of
Nazareth. How well do we
know, can we know J esus?

To know in~Biblical lan-
guage means a great deal more
than knowing about, more
than being aware of. To know

someone in the Biblical way is —

to have an intimate relation-
ship with that person.

Every relationship develops
in. stages. When we meet
someone, we start at the level
of ritual, “how do yo do, nice to
meet you”. Then we move into
a little deeper conversation, so
that the relationship can now
be described as casual, “Where
are you going on your holi-
days?”, how’s your garden do-
ing?”, pleasant conversation,
small talk kind of conversa-
tion, but not personal.

As the relation grows and
deepens, we become friends.
Now we are beginni
some of the joys and cares of
our lives.

Finally, if the relationship
becomes one of the rare ones,
we reach intimacy, where our
deepest feelings are shared,
where we become vulnerable

toshare -

The Canadian Standards
Association and the Canadi-
an Environmental Auditing
Association are developing a
voluntary national guideline
for environmental auditing
that will set out principles
and procedures that may be
followed in this increasingly
important element of envi-
ronmental responsibility.

Funded in part by a feder-
al government consortium of
Environment Canada, Public
Works Canada, Industry, Sci-
ence and Technology and the
Comptroller General’s Office
of the Treasury Board of
Canada, the guideline is
scheduled for publication and
release in December of this
year.

Input from the private sec-
tor will come through the
newly formed Canadian En-
vironmental Auditing Asso-
ciation, a practitioner-based
group with members from in-
dustry, commercial and insti-
tutional organizations and
the legal and financial sec-
tors.

A first draft guideline de-
veloped under contract for
the CSA is currently with the
CEAA Working Group re-
sponsible for standards de-
velopment. :

CSA is also pleased to an-
nounce the publication of
CAN/CSA-Q634-91,

Analysis Requirements. and
Guidelines, a National Stan-
dard of Canada.

The objective of this stan-
dard is to provide guidelines
for the application of the
quality process in risk analy-
sis, thus helping to promote
uniformity in the application
ofthe analytical tools used to
identify and analyze risk in-
formation.

CSA, through its Quality
Management Institute, also
offers Quality Management
Assurance Registration pro-
grams to the ISO 9000 series
of standards, for which CSA
also holds the international
secretariat.

For more than 70 years,
CSA has been developing
product and service stan-
dards, guidelines, codes and
other documents, as well as
providing extensive testing,
certification and verification
services.

An independent, not-fro-
profit organization with a
proven management system
and a large international net-
work of volunteers, the asso-
ciation provides a neutral fo-
rum in which business, in-
dustry, federal, provincial
and municipal governments
and consumers can work to-
gether to produce consensus
documents that meet their

Risk _ collective needs.

St. David’s
Anglican
Church

| The Rev. Dorothy BARKER

wonderful is that not only is
God in this person in a unique
and powerful way, but that
this person is fully human, like
us in all things.

of God?

ing.

See him now with Mary and
Martha and Lazarus, his
friends, in their family home
and his love for that family,

to one another. This is know-
ing in the Biblical sense. How
well do we know Jesus?

St. Paul writes that God
was in this person. Yet it was
only after the resurrection that
his followers came to recognize
that in its fullness, and call
him Lord.

Only as the infant Christian
community reflected on his life
and teaching, his miracles, his
suffering and death, and his
resurrection, did they come to
understand the full implica-
tion, that God actually was in
this person. But what is so

If we want to get better acquainted with Jesus
we must go to those parts of the Bible that we
call Gospels, the stories of good news.

If we want to get better ac-
quainted with Jesus we must
go to those parts of the Bible
that we call Gospels, the sto-
ries of good news. What is this
person like?

There we find him at wed-
ding party, having a good time
and sympathetic to the host
when the wine runs out. We
see him at a well, hot, tired,
thirsty and hungry, getting in-
to a discussion with a woman
to whom no-one else would
speak. We see him in inner
conflict when a woman is
brought to him who has been
caught in an adulterous situa-
tion. (One wonders, did Jesus
wonder, where was the man?)
We see his great wisdom and
compassion and understand-

caught up in their domestic
tensions and in their grief at
Lazarus’ death. See him as he
gets angry or disappointed or
sad when people are more in-
terested in rules than in peo-
ple and justice and mercy. And
there is laughter in him.

I firmly believed that he
must have laughed with the
woman who bettered him in an
argument, or at little Zaccheus
up in the tree trying to see over
the crowd.

As you read these stories in
the Gospels, put yourself into
them. Imagine that you are
there, one of the characters,
and see Jesus as the fully hu-
man, delightful person that he
is and the one in whom God
dwelt and who lives even now.

If your vehicle is pictured here, drop by the
Castlegar News to pick up your $20 CasBucks,
which you can spend at any participating merchant.

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YOUTH

TRIATHLON

The Fastlane
Fitness
Company is
sponsoring a
youth triathlon
May 31 at the
Castlegar
Community
Complex. The
triathlon begins
at 9 a.m., costs
$16 and is open
only to those
who pre-register.
Athletes six to 18
years old can
register for the
event at the
Complex.

KARATE

Karate B.C. will
host the 17th
Annual Spring
Provincial Karate
Championships
at Capilano
College May 15-
17. Among the
featured
performers is
Kaz Hashimoto,
defending North
American and
Canadian Kata
champions.

Ed Mills
SPORTS EDITOR

you're a scientist, poet,
astronaut or _phil-
osopher.

But in golf, it can be
deadly.

Nobody knows that
better now than Denise
Pottle.

Pottle has thought so
much about her game

that she’s been forced to

forget about. being af

golfer and concentrate
on construction work.

And construction
isn’t what the 19-year-
old Castlegar native
had in mind to be doing
in her second year of a
golf scholarship at
Kansas State
University.

“lve been totally
reconstructing my
swing, s0 I really didn’t
play in tournaments
this year. And I’m still
working on it,” said
Pottle, who returned to
Castlegar Wednesday night.

A high school star who beat
the boys in local tournaments,

Pottle continued to have success in
her first year at KSU, consistently
shooting in the low 80s and

occasionally the mid 70s. =

But without warning, it all went ¥
wrong this year.

Deep sighs punctuate Pottle’s
sentences as as she goes over her search
for the golf game she once had but can’t
find now. ‘

“It was frustrating for me because I
knew I could do it, because before I played
good. And not being able to play in Bes
tournaments was tough,” she said.

What made it even more frustrating was ¥
that she was never really sure, and still isn’t,
exactly what happened to her golf swing.

She only knows that once her swing started
going bad, she couldn't stop it.

_. It all began innocently enough when Pottle’s
coaches told her she needed to work on few things.

“And then there’s always something little that
Te start fooling around with, I probably shouldn't

ve,

And as things got worse she started thinking
about it more.

“I worry too much about it and they (her coaches)
said I have to stop worrying about it and just get up 4
and hit the ball.

. “But it’s just kind of hard, it’s like anything, to be as
good as you were before you have to find out what's wrong
and work at it.”

Compounding Pottle’s problems was the fact that five
new players were added to the women’s team at the start
of the season. The additions brought the total to 10 players

: : f and made it that much
good, expected even, if
quali

But increased compet-
ition became academic
for Pottle when her
problem came along.

“It wasn’t like I was
hitting the ball very
good, and I’m still
working at it, so I wasn’t
going to be qualifying

anyway.

But that didn’t make
it any easier dealing
with the fact that her
status on the team had
declined. For someone
used to being No. 1,
being No. 6 was tough to

take.

“I just had totry not to
get upset and just keep
working hard,” she said.

All is not doom and
gloom for Pottle. She
says she has several
factors working in her
favor right now. No 1 on
her list is keeping a
positive attitude as-she

continues with the reconstruction.
F “The more I work on it I know
@Athat it will pay off. I’ve been
working hard, I mean, everyday I
was out there, so there wasn’t much
§ / more I can do.”
No 2 on her list is age. At 19 she
knows she has lots of time to get her
swing back and to get back to her
accustomed role on her team.
47 - Atthe same time, she'll be a third- year
veteran at KSU this fall and playing the
© /team leader has always been something
Pottle’s responded to.

“I think now I’m getting to be older on the
gag team and people look up to you and you feel
#7 more confident. I think that will help me play

Bag better.” :
Besides giving her fits looking for answers, a
struggling year on the course has also put
‘ottle’s future in the game in perspective for her.
It’s not that she didn’t know what the future

on her plans.
7 “You see, with golf, I love playing golf and
everything and it’s fun playing in college, it’s just that
you see the competition....
“I mean, I know how good I have to be if I ever want
to go pro or anything like that and it’s just so hard,” said
ottle, who didn’t take up the game until she was 14.
Golf is important to Pottle, but she has another goal
that stands on an equal footing with her game.
) “Ireally want to teach. And so I’m being realistic about
it, I’m not just going to waste my school away and just
concentrate on my golf. I make sure I really concentrate on
my school too.
“What I’m hoping for is to graduate and become a teacher
and see what happens with my golf from there.”

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