Cliches like those get passed around and become popular, in part, because most folks live on land ... which means facing the financial burdens of paying the mortage or the rent, taxes, homeowner's insurance, maintenance, upkeep and all the rest.
The expense of owning a boat includes all of those expenses, too; so for folks with two sets of bills to crunch each month, the redundancy of unavoidable costs certainly contributes to the perception in the public mind that boating is expensive, frivolous and all of those things.
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Boat owners who actually live on their boats have just one set of bills to face each month, just the same as land-dwellers. So for live-aboards, the cost of boat ownership doesn't seem nearly as onerous, expensive or aggravating.
After all, that's where we live: we're live-aboards.
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Like the folks who live on land but who also own boats and might think the price of boat ownership and upkeep is too high, sometimes folks who identify themselves as believers feel the price of belonging to Christ is too high: too many rules, too many don'ts, too many interferences with our lives "outside of church."
That's because they're trying to live with two sets of priorities.
But folks who're full-time, Holy Spirit-lives-onboard believers don't ever describe their relationship with Christ as being too costly, too time-consuming or too aggravating.
Could be that's because they're focused on the one life they're living. The one that's lived for Christ ... full-time, all the time, every time.
