The Good Silver in The Antarctic
Too powerful not to simply share with you —
In her essay “An Expedition to the Pole,”
Annie Dillard writes about explorers who didn’t make it.
When their skeletons were exhumed,
researchers learned a lot about their last days.
For instance, many of them tucked settings of silver into their coats.
When those adventurers braved
the frigid brutalities of the Antarctic,
they could not imagine leaving behind
those elegant and weighty trappings of luxury.
They clutched their family crest etched into the polished metal
even when they didn’t have the sustenance to survive.
This image reminded Dillard of the church.
(by Carol Howard Merritt, sourced at http://www.christiancentury.org/article/2014-09/putting-away-silver)
joescheets 
Powerful indeed! Goes along with Leanne’ s post, “A growing church is a dying church.”
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And, yup again! Let’s keep connecting these dots, eh?
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Annie would be more poetic than getting a camel through a needle. At least that is where my mind went.
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Yup!
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