Charlie with the nautical metaphor and some back story on word choice in the Acts of the Apostles. His post also reverberates with the original words to "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" (Ebenezer makes a cameo appearance-- I hadn't heard that verse before).
Here's a similar verse from the "dance remix" of "Come Thou Font" that I have heard and do like, because it's lyrically much better than the metaphorically confused or repetitive stuff that bedevils our hymnody at the "young adult" Mass on most Sundays:
O, to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be!
Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee!
Prone to wander, Lord I feel it;
Prone to leave the God I love:
Here's my heart, O take and seal it;
Seal it for thy courts above.
UPDATE: The Anchoress is also thinking in nautical terms, with help from saints John Fisher, Thomas More, and Paulinus of Nola, who share this feast day. Her post mentions a famous letter that More wrote from prison to his daughter Meg but does not link to that letter, so I'll do the linking honors here. It's a beautiful (and in its excerpted part, short) letter that any Christian could profit from reading.
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