Photo and Commentary ©2024 by Maylan Schurch
Sabbath and Sunday, January 20 and 21, 2024
This sign stands on one of our bookshelves at home. Quite a valiant slogan, right? It’s as though it has leaped out at you from the pages of a confident, two-fisted, positive-thinking book.
But positive thinking alone doesn’t cut it. A lot of people have been tripped up by this idea. These are the folks who – especially when young, especially before some of life’s unexpected brutalities spring up in their paths – sincerely believe that “I am the captain of my fate.”
Want to know a little secret? There’s something missing from the sign above.
Here’s the wide-angle view:
A good many Bible stories could use my sign as their subtitle: David: Let Your Faith Be Bigger Than Your Fears. Daniel: Let Your Faith . . . (and so on).
The further we wade into the Uncertainty Swamp which is 2024, the more we’re going to need the Bible words from the link just below this paragraph. Check them out . . . .