After watching the water bugs skim over the water for a time, while fishing, it is exciting to feel a tugging on the line and draw out a big fish, then another, and another. How good they taste when our mothers cook them.
In our picture we see one of the boys holding his fishing rod out over the water patiently waiting for the fish to bite. The others are watching quietly, for if they made a noise the fish would be frightened away and could not be caught. But if the children all keep quiet, they may expect to catch some fish, and they are happy in this expectation.
Dear children, does this attitude of watching remind you of something else we are expecting? Most of you have heard that Jesus is coming to take those who love Him—coming to take them away from this world of sin and sorrow to His happy home above, where all is joy.
We do not know just when He will come, but He tells us to watch and wait, for He may come at any time. As a dear little girl four years old said, “He may come this afternoon.”
ML 07/23/1944