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A large, high-tech icebreaker departed Cape Town, South Africa three days ago. 

It then headed south, battling rough seas on its way to the only land mass south of South Africa: Antarctica. 

The mission of the Endurance22 Expedition is to locate the wreckage of a wooden frigate that has been lying at the bottom of the Weddell Sea, under a mile and a half of freezing cold water, for 107 years.  The organizers of the trip hope to locate, survey, and take a complete set of 3D images of Endurance<\/em>, the boat that carried Ernest Shackleton on one of the greatest polar adventures of all time. 

In 1914, the British explorer set out with 27 other men to attempt the impossible: walking from one side of Antarctica to the other.

They didn\u2019t get very far. 

Shackleton knew that the Weddell Sea, where it adjoins the Larsen Ice Shelf, is \u201cthe worst portion of the worst sea in the world.\u201d  His assessment proved to be prophetic.  Endurance<\/em> never even delivered the explorers to the Antarctic shoreline.  It became trapped in solid pack ice and was crushed over the next 10 months by the shifting movements of gigantic icy plates. 

When it became clear that the ship could not be saved, the men spilled out onto the ice holding their possessions. 

They now had no shelter and no way whatsoever of telling anyone else about their condition.  Imagine being in the middle of one of Earth\u2019s most forbidding wastelands and having no cell phone, internet, or GPS \u2013 let alone a post office where they could drop off \u201csnail mail\u201d cries for help. 

Incredibly, they would all survive \u2013 but rescue was still almost two years away.

Shackleton gathered the men.  \u201cSpeaking with the utmost conviction,\u201d as Alfred Lansing puts it in his book Endurance<\/em>, \u201cShackleton pointed out that no article was of any value when weighed against their ultimate survival, and he exhorted them to be ruthless in ridding themselves of every unnecessary ounce, regardless of its value.\u201d

Leaders need to lead the way.  That\u2019s exactly what Shackleton did.  \u201cAfter he had spoken, he reached under his parka and took out a gold cigarette case and several gold sovereigns and threw them into the snow at his feet.\u201d  He was also carrying a Bible that had been given to him by none other than the Queen of England.  It also had to go. 

But first he tore out one chapter and put it into his pocket.  If you could hold on to just one chapter of the Bible, what would it be? 

Shackleton chose the 23rd<\/sup> Psalm, presumably because it includes these words:

The Lord is my Shepherd.  I shall not want\u2026 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil.  For Thou art with me.<\/em>

Maybe your life feels shipwrecked right now.  Every step seems like another step into the wilderness, and you wonder when you will ever find your way home.   

But even if you have nothing, you still have everything you need. 

You are not alone. 

His Presence will go with you<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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