Anchor Deeper
For almost 400 years, ship captains and sailors have made their homes along the coastal communities that line the ports from Massachusetts to Maine. The public houses that once provided a place to listen to the stories of whalers and the great navigators that sailed from the Northeast to the Pacific have largely disappeared in favor of merchant marine union halls, but if you look hard enough, you can still find a place to glean the wisdom of weathered, wise, experienced ship captains. And if you asked them how they got through the storms that ravaged so many of their fellow sailors, they will all tell you the same thing - "Anchor deeper."
The captain's defense against wind and waves and the fiercest storms is to secure the ship (and all it carries) with anchors. Even the largest, modern battleships have just four anchors - just like the ships referenced in the Bible (Acts 27). As technology has brought ships from small, wooden fishing vessels to floating fortresses that require thousands of live aboard crew, anchors still provide the only protection from nature's threats.
When these anchors are improperly set - when they simply lay on the bottom of the ocean floor or when they take hold of superficial supports - they leave the ship vulnerable to even mild threats. But when anchors are set properly by clawing deep into the seabed or taking hold deep against something that is immovable and firm, then the vessel will always make it successfully through the storm - even if it is the wildest, fiercest, strangest storm that the ship has ever seen.
"Anchor deeper" is the reminder that while we all face storms, the experienced captains know how to anchor deeper.