“You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese,
a fragment of underdone potato.
There’s more of gravy than of grave about you,
whatever you are!”
Charles Dickens / Scrooge in a Christmas Carol
(Alastair Sim as Scrooge in a 1951 adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol)
An undigested bit of beef, a piece of moldy cheese…
a sour stomach due to indigestion…
Indigestion, that’s it!!
Or maybe a migraine…
or a change in weather…
or the dropping barometric pressure…
perhaps a change in season…
Any explanation other than the truth…
The truth of the nagging encounter.
The encounter that is meant to turn you around.
Bringing you to your knees,
opening your eyes,
but more importantly, turning your heart.
Oh say what we will about the character of the man Dickens…
One thing is certain, his stories spoke deeply of the condition of the heart of man.
How long will we try to rationalize our encounters, our moments,
when the Spirit meets us in mid journey, as something other than indigestion
or a coincidence, or something other than…
the Divine…
“Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you;
and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 26:36
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Love this, Yoda. I often feel like that and the only relief is a good burp. Thanks for the reminder that God is constantly working on us. Have a great day.
You too– I’m a bit hard headed like me Scrooge 🍔🧀
that’s what I get for trying to reply from my phone…”me Scrooge” should read “Mr. Scrooge”—my fingers are just to clumsy hitting those tiny little keys 🙂
Ha ha ha – I know what you mean. I hate my fingers too. I have the same problem on my computer. Does Yoda have thumbs?
This yoda does and I think the original yoda does as he needs them when holding his light saber
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thank you Vincent…and thank you for the sharing you’ve offered throughout the past several days—reading over those posts that you share…I feel like a little sheep amongst giants as you offer a great deal of deep theological meat and potatoes–I am merely a tiny morsel….much like Mr. Scrooge laments 🙂
You’re very welcome Julie, I like to think every morsel has equal value in the Kingdom of God.
Truly so 🍰
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I read a blog entry tonight where dance around all the longings that we humans have but they just couldn’t call it a God thing. They just called it
spirituality. Where in the heck do they think that “spirit” in spirituality comes from???? 🙂 ❤
It seems God uses afflictions more than mere apologetics to bring many to Himself…
He meets wherever we may be and will bring us to our knees…and in some cases, such as Ebenezer’s, we may need a strong shaking in order to get us to those knees….