You can find a fair amount of mention in some classic literature about fearful sailors in wooden sailing vessels - desperate to avoid the crushing devastation of contact with rocky shores or the geologic leviathans hiding just beneath the waves in their path. Such perils had the potential to bring about the sudden loss of precious cargo or much more concerning, the terror inciting fear of the loss of their own lives. It was easy for me as an avid young reader to place myself in the stories of those long written chapters. I could spend hours engrossed in well written tomes of adventure - experiencing with those hearty adventurists of each tale to varying degree, the emotions they themselves felt as the words streamed from the pages through my eyes - gleaning every word in an almost transfixed state. This was my means of escape from other unwelcome things that inserted themselves into my childhood and a habit that often kept me engaged for hours at a time. What I didn't fully appr
A much loved spiritual mentor pointed out to me the difference between the Apostle Paul's past will (a life without Christ) and His new will that evolved after the Lord called Him. He then challenged me to define what my own new will would say... ...let my response be found here...
"It is not the title that people give to themselves that defines who they are; it is the fruit of what they produce." Graham Cooke