Everyone wants to be succeeding at something: the child putting a jigsaw puzzle together, the student working on a thesis, the teacher going before his first class, the astronaut putting a spacecraft on the moon.
When the children of Israel had been in the wilderness forty years and were nearing the end of their journey to the Promised Land, Joshua told the people that God was with them and that they would see this fact proved.
In the days before machinery, when trees were to be sawed into boards, a two-man crosscut saw was used, and often a pit, known as the "sawpit," was dug in the ground.
