You Can’t Paddle With a Stiff Neck

Someone has to lead in a canoe. In order to make it work, the person sitting in the front must listen and allow the person behind him to call the shots: paddle as directed even when it doesn’t make sense. I do better in the front of a canoe. Though I find I am sometimes inside my own head or I try to paddle independently, closed off to my friend’s voice. The Prophet Jeremiah calls this being stiff-necked.