“Now Fish For Men,” painting

"Now Fish For Men," painting by Kathy Grimm

“Let Your Light Shine,” in blue

"Let Your Light So Shine Before Men," blue version by Kathy Grimm

Spiritual Flood-Tide

I stood on the coast of England, and looked out over a stretch of oozy slime and ill-smelling mud. There were the barges high and dry, lying on their side–no matter what cargo they carried or how skillful the captain, they were on the mud. It would have availed them nothing to heave the anchor or hoist the sail. And I thought, What is the remedy? Were it any use for the corporation to pass a by-law that every citizen should bring kettles filled with water, and pour it out upon the stretch of mud?

But as I watched I saw the remedy. God turned the tide. In swept the waters of the sea, and buried the mud, and then came the breath of sweetness and life. And it flowed in about the barges, and instantly all was activity. Then heave-ho with the anchor, then hoist the sails, then forth upon some errand of good. So it is that we stand looking out upon many a dreadful evil which fills us with dismay–drunkenness, gambling, sexual impurity. Is there any remedy? And the churches, so very respectable, but, alas, high and dry on the muddy beach–for these too, what is the remedy? We want the flood-tide–the gracious outpouring of the Spirit; then must come the roused and quickened churches, the Christians transformed into Christ-like men and women who shall demand righteousness.–Mark Guy Pearce.

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“Let Your Light Shine”

"Let Your Light So Shine Before Men," by Kathy Grimm

“Faith laughs at impossibilities, and says “it shall be done.” Abraham’s faith was adventurous when he went out, not knowing whither he went. Every promise claimed is a promise possessed. Believe, and thou shalt see. Those who are afraid of the deep will not catch many fishes. Have the courage to “launch out.” We need pioneers in the realms of faith as well as in the dark places of earth, and no other field of exploration can ever yield such rewards, for “every place where the sole of your feet shall tread upon shall be yours.” S. S. Times.

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ship

ship by Kathy Grimm

      Every ship has a cargo, or if no cargo it is seeking for cargo. Some cargoes are safe and some dangerous. In olden time they used to load grain in bulk, which was dangerous, for if the grain shifted in a storm it was apt to throw the ship on her beam ends. Cotton is a dangerous cargo, and many steamship lines advertise, “These ships carry no cotton.” Some years ago, and evil-minded man tried to ship an infernal machine on one of the steamers of a transatlantic line. His intention was that the clockwork in the machine should go off while the ship was in mid-ocean, and blow her to pieces, Fortunately, the clockwork went off while the infernal machine was on the dock. It blew off the stern of the steamer and killed thirteen men. Surely that would have been a dangerous cargo to carry.

Just so every man carries a cargo. By this I mean a cargo of opinions, passions, appetites, and these are sure to wreck any young man who carries them — A. F. Schauffler, The Christian Herald.

This ship graphic altered for black web pages.

Sailboat

Sailboat Graphic by Kathy Grimm

Poem by Daisy Rinehart

I’m tired of sailing my little boat

Far inside of the harbor bar;

I want to be out where the big ships float –

Out on the deep, where the great ones are!

And should my frail craft prove too slight

For storms that sweep those wide seas o’er,

Better to go down in the stirring fight

Than drowse to death by the sheltered

shore!

This graphic comes in aqua and blue as well.