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Snowshoeing
Photo credit: Gianni Crestani via Pixabay
Attention Always “Gets Paid”
I went with several friends to the eastern Upper Peninsula to enjoy the beauty and recreational value of winter. Snowshoe hiking was our chosen activity, and one of our day trips took us to Fiborn Quarry, a few miles west of Trout Lake, MI. We hiked the 1.5-mile trail to the quarry site, a 40-foot-deep crater about ¼ mile across, with 15-foot-tall trees sprinkled around its floor and 3 feet of snow. Add periods of 30 mph winds and blowing snow, and you get the picture – it was great!
We hiked around the rim, then found a slope to slide down to view the quarry ruins. Limestone used in smelting iron ore into steel was once mined here, loaded into railcars, and shipped to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. The business was profitable for over 30 years, then carbide slag, a new industrial waste product, replaced much of the limestone used for smelting, and the mine closed along with the small adjacent town.
You’ve heard the statement “pay attention” a few times in life, perhaps even directed toward you. Mr. Attention always gets paid, the question is by whom. Fiborn Quarry owners were not attentive to technological advances, or to developing alternative uses for the material they mined. They might have learned to use limestone for architectural purposes, but they paid Mr. Attention, and the price was Fiborn Quarry.
Such is the risk that we each confront in daily life, though unnoticed at times. If our minds are not set toward God’s will for our lives in prayer, if His written Word is not our active, daily guide, we will be surprised by Jesus’ return! Our life will be the price that we pay for not being attentive to God’s many calls for us to follow Him into life everlasting. We’ll call for the rocks to cover us and hide us from Jesus’ face. While Jesus takes His faithful children home to heaven, those who were inattentive to His frequent pleadings will be left on a desolate Earth, a larger version of those Fiborn Quarry ruins.
Day by day, the Holy Spirit pleads with humanity. One vital way is through the Strong Tower Radio's broadcasting! Enjoy this Canadian listener statement, “I’m a Seventh-day Adventist today because of your broadcast.” Praise God! Another life being transformed by the Holy Spirit through the tool of Strong Tower Radio! As your prayers ascend to heaven on behalf of STR listeners, and your regular financial gifts keep this ministry operating and growing, I thank you for being so attentive to proclaiming the everlasting gospel as Jesus has instructed. Our attentiveness now will help us avoid “paying attention” too late at the very end. Maranatha!
Kam Ferguson
Development Director
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