James: A Letter to the Faithful Week Two - "Row, Row Row Your Boat."
Imagine that you are on a sinking ship. If you need to imagine the motion picture Titanic, go for it. You are Jack--or Rose--and the song is playing in the background. "Near... far... wherever you are...." Okay, I take it that you are with me at this point. So in your imaginary sinking ship you are getting on board a lifeboat full of people, who have all been given oars to row. All at once the people on one side of the lifeboat begin shouting that they are the ones who need to row--and that everyone else needs to pull their oars out of the water. "This will only work if we are the ones who are rowing!!" they exclaim. The people on the other side begin shouting back, "No! We are the ones who need to be rowing!! Everyone on that side needs to pull their oars out of the water and let us row!!" At this point you are probably watching Jack and Rose float away on their little scrap of wood and you're thinking, "I wonder if they h...