I have just returned from my vacation, part of which was spent in Canada fishing for salmon. I notice there always seems to be a curiosity when I come back from a fishing trip to know if I caught anything, and if so, how big was it?

I can usually exercise the necessary latitude to describe my catch appropriately, but this time I was with several members of this congregation. They happen to be in this service this morning as well, so I am forced to limit what I say, and this is it. There is more to fishing than catching the big one.

Prior to that I was in Michigan for a week of preaching and teaching at Bay View, a summer community up on the lower peninsula of Michigan, on Lake Michigan. Bay View is one of the Chatauqua communities that sprung out of Lake Chatauqua, New York, that communi…