...to parts of the Bible that I haven't read in a while. I was surprised reading in Judges by how Samson's thirst was satisfied by God, and by the visitations of the angel to his parents before he was conceived, and by the dramatic departure of the angel as he ascended on a flame.
Likewise, I've been led to circle back on a topic or two, and I found things of significance that I didn't notice there before.
It is very difficult, often impossible, to be complete and accurate in our understanding, even when we're trying to be.
I have, however, noticed that when I circle back, search engines will give me some results that I would have like to have had the first time around. There is some sort of throttle operating there, and some sort of algorithm that injects irrelevant garbage into the search results.
A boomer apologizes, albeit without much clarity.
"It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs," Jesus said; Matthew 15:26.
I recently understood that I am spending my life in rebuilding spiritual and practical foundations that had been foolishly undermined by previous generations.
Several months ago I was reading a nonfiction book by Christian author Paul Tournier, and made it about three-quarters of the way through before being drawn away to other things.
When I picked it up this last week and finished reading it, I found references to about a dozen Bible passages that had come up in my daily Bible readings in the interim, mostly obscure Old Testament personages with a variety of afflictions; Tournier was a Swiss doctor famous for connecting his Christianity with his medical practice.
I also read a Christian fiction book this last week: Deadline, by Randy Alcorn. One day, what I read in the book mirrored my morning Bible reading on that same day.
"A work of creation was three-fold, an earthly trinity to match the heavenly; the Creative Idea, timeless and passionate, which is the image of the Father; the Creative Energy, begotten of the idea and working in time, which is the image of the Word; the Creative Power, the meaning of the work and its response in the individual soul, which is the image of the indwelling Spirit."
-- P. D. James, summarizing Dorothy L. Sayers' description
