As is probably the case with most website/blog maintainers, the statistics get checked on a fairly regular basis. One of the driest pages on the site (although some of you will argue there are drier) is Terms and Conditions of this Website, Privacy Policy and Information About Endorsements. It’s one of those things you just about have to have on a website but very few people find it interesting. Except here, for some reason: since the first of the year it’s been popular on the site.
Perhaps it’s because I referred to it in The “Leaky” Church of God Marches On, about a site that likes to copy other people’s stuff, frequently without acknowledgement. But perhaps there’s another reason. Most of us have heard the term “in our wheelhouse,” and that page features a picture of one. We’ve reproduced it at the top of this post. It is a photo of the bridge of the last yacht we owned, the Goldengirl, shown below.
At one time the photo of the yacht–taken outside of Palm Beach Inlet–was the masthead for the site, back in the days of image maps and a static site. Those days are pretty much gone, but “old salts” will also note that many of the items in our “wheelhouse” photo (it’s really the bridge) are things of the past too, such as the clock and barometer set (with its wind-up clock) and the air driven screen wipers.
The Goldengirl has long been featured in the post Safe in the Harbour (Barely!), the time when we found ourselves in a literal storm and then almost moroned in the Straits of Florida with one key component in the bridge (the ship’s wheel) useless to guide the ship.
As Holy Week is about to begin, all of our readers need to realise that without God’s protection and direction, all of us can find ourselves buffeted by the storms of life without the ability to end up safely in the harbour.
Positive Infinity 