Faith-Based Living

In the novel, "The Country of the Pointed Firs," a woman notices a number of painted wooden stakes around the property of a retired she captain, Elijah Tilley. She asks the captain why those wooden stakes are driven in the ground. Tilley tells her that when he first bought the farm and plowed the ground, every once in a while his plow would snag on the large rock underneath the surface of the ground. The snags not only slowed his progress but dulled his plow. So he put up stakes to show where the underneath rocks relocated so he could avoid them. The author says that’s what the 10 Commandments are all about. God has said that these are trouble spots in life. Avoid them and you will not snag your plow.