DRIVEN BY DEEP CURRENTS
In the frigid waters around Greenland are countless icebergs, some little and some gigantic. If you’d observe them carefully, you’d notice that sometimes the small ice floes move in one direction while their massive counterparts flow in another. The explanation is simple. Surface winds drive the little ones, whereas the huge masses of ice are carried along by deep ocean currents. When we face trials and tragedies, it’s helpful to see our lives as being subject to two forces ??surface winds and ocean currents. The winds represent everything changeable and unpredictable in the world that surrounds us including a multitude of bewildering opinions, theories, persuasions and philosophies. But operating simultaneously with these gusts and gales is another force that’s even more powerful. It is the sure movement of a personal dedication to a set of underlying divine principles and values that do not change with the times and that run deeper and surer than the surface turmoil. We are wise to seek out such principles and let them guide and propel us forward.