“Awake you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.”  (Ephesians 5:14)

In 1908 Jack London wrote a short story, published in Century Magazine called “To Build a Fire.” In the story a man hikes the Yukon trail along with his dog in subzero temperatures despite urgent warnings about the dangers of the extreme cold by those in Sulphur Creek. Thinking he can light a fire whenever he wants if the cold gets too harsh, the man’s overconfidence and insistence on going it alone leads to a point of reckoning. At the point that he decides to strike a match he is unable to light the fire he needs to survive due to his numb hands and fingers. Realizing his error too late, he panics and soon “falls asleep” eternally in the snow.

Last week, we talked about knowing where your trea…