As you can see, I am not as active with FB as I was in the past. I have started a little blog with Google. I hope to post brief updates on a fairly regular basis.
(taken from Promislander's Musings)
WHY I CALL MYSELF, "PROMISELANDER."
Promiselander has a double meaning for me. First it refers to the community I lived in as a youth and secondly it refers to the life of spiritual victory provided through the sacrificial death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Though I was born in Morehead City, North Carolina, we lived in various places during my childhood, including, Norfolk, Va., Miami, Fl., Wilmington, N.C., Hollywood Hills and Glendale, Ca. However, we moved back to Morehead when I was in the sixth grade. My grandparents, parents and eventually I lived in a part of Morehead that is called Promised Land.
The name of the community is a reminder of those hearty outerbankers who moved from Diamond City on the Shackleford Banks to a beautiful stretch of property along Bogue Sound and called it Promised Land. Those people, many of them whalers, had weathered many hurricanes and watched their community get wiped out by wind and wave. Not only did they move from the outer banks, some of them floated their houses up Bogue Sound and settled the Promised Land.
Promised Land was a paradise for young watermen of the mid 1900s (like me), with swimming, fishing (with either hook and line or net), clamming, oystering, shrimping, surfing, skiing, sailing, motor boating. There was easy access to both Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
The original use of the term Promised Land had to do with the land God promised Abraham and his descendents (the Jews) in the Old Testament. However, that stretch of real estate was also representative of the spiritual life God promises to all those who follow Christ fully. The Promised Land of spiritual victory is not heaven, but the life of godliness in this present evil world.
Launch Out and Hold Fast,
Promiselander (David L. Gould)
Though I was born in Morehead City, North Carolina, we lived in various places during my childhood, including, Norfolk, Va., Miami, Fl., Wilmington, N.C., Hollywood Hills and Glendale, Ca. However, we moved back to Morehead when I was in the sixth grade. My grandparents, parents and eventually I lived in a part of Morehead that is called Promised Land.
The name of the community is a reminder of those hearty outerbankers who moved from Diamond City on the Shackleford Banks to a beautiful stretch of property along Bogue Sound and called it Promised Land. Those people, many of them whalers, had weathered many hurricanes and watched their community get wiped out by wind and wave. Not only did they move from the outer banks, some of them floated their houses up Bogue Sound and settled the Promised Land.
Promised Land was a paradise for young watermen of the mid 1900s (like me), with swimming, fishing (with either hook and line or net), clamming, oystering, shrimping, surfing, skiing, sailing, motor boating. There was easy access to both Bogue Sound and the Atlantic Ocean.
The original use of the term Promised Land had to do with the land God promised Abraham and his descendents (the Jews) in the Old Testament. However, that stretch of real estate was also representative of the spiritual life God promises to all those who follow Christ fully. The Promised Land of spiritual victory is not heaven, but the life of godliness in this present evil world.
1 Corinthians 2:9-10I love my childhood home and I also believe God has promised His chosen people, Israel, the region around Jerusalem. God has also promised to lead His children (Christians) into the life of victory and holiness, if they walk fully in the light of Christ.
(9) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him.
(10) But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.
Launch Out and Hold Fast,
Promiselander (David L. Gould)
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