"He must increase, but I must decrease."
John the Baptist, John 3:30
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The story
John the Baptist had everything a leader could want. Crowds walked out into the wilderness to hear him. People from Jerusalem and all of Judea came to be baptized. He had his own disciples.
Then Jesus started baptizing nearby, and the crowds began to move. John's disciples came to him upset: everyone is going to Him now.
John didn't defend his turf. He told them he was only the friend of the bridegroom, and that the friend's joy is to hear the groom's voice. "This joy of mine is now complete. He must increase, but I must decrease."
Few people in history have watched their own following shrink and called it joy.
Why we wear it
Most of us spend the day trying to increase: more credit, more control, more of our name in the room. This band is a quiet push the other way. When you want to be the one who gets noticed, look at your wrist and point past yourself.
About the band
- Durable silicone wristband
- Quote wraps around the band, with the Fossil Words ammonite seal in the middle
- Images are design previews. The finished band may differ slightly.
Fossil Words digs up words etched in the stone of time: words that lived in the actions of the people who spoke them.