Gratitude: Alignment & Fellowship

You don't have to be a fish to know a hook when you see it ... or feel it. Reawakened guilt feels the same way and it will continue to produce those feelings as long as we keep moral failures hidden and unconfessed, out of sight, out of the light.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” (Mark 8:36). When Lew Sterrett first heard these words preached, he was in Chicago as a delegate to the 50th National 4-H Congress.

While astride a palomino, Lew Sterrett demonstrates the use of the bit, one of the smallest forms of horse tack. Bits have various sizes, shapes, and weights for varying degrees of effectiveness. But what if there is more to horse training than controlling the head and the mouth?

The Marines do not require special training on fellowship and unity. Once they have owned a cause to fight for and have identified the enemies to that cause, fellowship and unity fall into place. Opposition and hardship can only strengthen their bond.