Patterns

I had another opportunity Saturday to search after the elusive speckled trout. Our goal was pretty clear - unlike the trip we took a few weeks back, we wanted to put some nice trout in the boat and return home with a cooler stinking of something other than ice! But more specifically, we wanted to figure out at which depth the fish were holding, to which type of cover or structure the fish were relating and on which kind of prey the fish were feeding. Well, it took us a while to start catching fish Saturday, but once we boated several in close proximity to one another, we analyzed the depth, the structure and the bait (and the presentation), and then set forth to trying to develop a pattern.

Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.