insider knowledge

I’m going to let you in on a bit of background. The picture for this page is actually my sister’s Bible. Everytime I see this I cannot help but smile, no matter what kind of mood I’m in. The story behind this picture was just comical, something I imagine from old cartoons.

You see, my sister was in town for a visit, and in my family, we rarely go anywhere without our Bibles. We had gone out on the town one day and she accidentally left her Bible in the backseat of the car. Of course, we didn’t think anything about it for several hours since we were back home and having coffee (well, I was probably having tea since I do not like coffee).

My son borrowed the car to visit friends or go to some event (I don’t remember), but when he returned, he was carrying her Bible ever so gently. The look on his face told me he was mortified about what had happened, and he was truly concerned he had completely destroyed it. He had driven around with all the windows down, and the wind had wreaked havoc on its pages.

Of course my sister was shocked, but we all started laughing. After making sure all the pages were still present as some had already pulled free of the binding, we set it on the table and took this picture. Next was the painstaking process of flattening out all the pages again so we could close the book. It took several minutes to do so as the pages are thin. So, everytime I see this picture, I smile.

I picked this picture because my thoughts are sometimes like those pages, all jumbled and messy, but still in some semblance of order. I have to look through each one and flatten it out to see if the idea is worth pursuing, or should I just go to the next page. Just a word of advice though, don’t leave a book in the backseat of the car with all the windows down.