1.7.11

A small dent to my physical conditioning: I went to bed at 3 a.m. this morning because Inno, Liza & Emong’s son, asked for help in his Computer Science thesis. It gave me a splitting headache for most of the day. I have this mental condition that if I feel something wrong is going to happen to me if I act against my better judgment, it actually happens.

Case in point: many, many years ago while in Zurich with Jan Neels, we were served a small amount of salad for dinner. I immediately took a small degree of “distaste” for the vegetables on the plate and thought that it looked like cows’ meal and that if I took a bite of the dressed leaves, I’d be sick. I had allergies all over my body that night which sent both Jan and I frantically looking for pharmaceutical relief way past midnight in a seedy part of the city.

Norrie and I had a talk about his future.
I am no seer.
I am just a friend offering a few words of caution.
I said, unless you know where you are going, there is no way you can know how to get there.
I hope he heard me.


REFLECTIONS
Genesis 20-22

Abraham: The Liar, Part II.
Even mighty men used of and by God have their own Achilles’ heels to mind.

Isaac: The Promise
I told you so!

Abraham and Isaac: The Test
There is this beautiful poster at Sis. Nelia Ogalesco’s office that I love so much. In it is written:

“When God leads you to the edge of the cliff, trust Him fully and let go. Only one of these two things will happen – either, He will catch you when you fall or He will teach you how to fly.”

There is only one condition to know: let go.
Abraham and Isaac did just that.