SEEING
Friday, July 15, 2016
What have you
seen lately that is new to you? Not a rhetorical question as I do ask it of
people, and now ask you. (Answers will be in next Friday DTForum.)
I like seeing new
things.
This morning
while eating breakfast and enjoying regular sights of birds at feeder, flowers,
clouds floating in blue sky, walkers passing by . . . I saw a footman I’d not
seen before. He is rail-thin, gray haired, a fast pacer. And there was
something else. Holding it full spread, he was reading the morning newspaper as
he hurried along.
For reasons I’ll
never understand about my segueing mind, my thoughts returned to the Book of
Job, and I realized a new aspect of the harried man: Though Job reminisced
about how his life once was (Chap. 29), longed for God (Chap. 23), examined and
judged himself (Chap. 42:1-6), Job did not ask God to heal him or restore his
good old glory days.
This morning I
saw Job walking a far different path than is typical of travelers.
EBB4
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