Tuesday, October 31, 2006

God Botherers Inc


Reading from one of my old Dad's diarys I saw on a November page, "As you go through life take time to smell the roses". Years later his quote is still making sense, especially to a very busy retiree!
I had just finished a book shelf type cabinet for Yooralla and there were two things I just could not find, a fourth packet of plastic shelf supports and a vernier.
I did what I normally do, I told God that I could not find them, as I had the idea that He knew where both things were. To do my part, I started to clean up the shed. In due course this was done but still no missing things were being pointed out to me.
As I went back inside I was thinking , perhaps He is busy running the universe, perhaps the things will turn up later, perhaps I should have consulted St Anthony, perhaps it doesn't matter much any way.
As I went to go in the back door I spotted two card board boxes sitting on the BBQ, waiting to be torn up to go in to the recycling bin. As I picked up the boxes and began to tear them up, LO and Behold, in one of them was the fourth packet of shelf supports. I went into the garage to the recycle bin to put the cardboard in, and as I raised the lid, the back of my hand came against something on a shelf above, something covered with dust, Lo and Behold it was the vernier.
I know that some readers will think, "A God botherer indeed".
I read just last week a claim made by a star gazer , it went like this, "There are as more suns in the universe that there are grains of sand on all the beaches in this world.
Old Bildad was telling Job off in Job 26 and after talking about the glories of what God had made he went on to say, "But these things are only hints of His power, only the whispers of what we have heard. Who can know how truly great God is"?
Another translation says, "These are only the edges of His ways". (I like that one)
Call me a God botherer if you like, but it is well worth your while to try Him out.
"Seek and you shall find" said Jesus and Isaiah 55;6 says "Seek the Lord while he may be found".
It is much more important to find Him than it is to find some temporal possession.
Tell Him you really want to find Him. See what happens.
Here is a picture of the trifles that I was looking for




4 Comments:

At 5:34 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Grandad,

I loyally check your blog everyday, and am pleased to see you have FINALLY updated.

KEPP IT UP!

Your favourite grand-daughter
xo

 
At 7:56 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I listen regularly to Phillip Adams on Radio National, the one who first coined the term 'God botherer'. I cannot help but like him, a proud and loud atheist and author of 'Adams vs God'. A man of considerable intellect! What amuses me, though, is that he so often invites onto his program those of a more religious persuasion and plies them with questions about belief. So much so that I often wonder if he is as really convinced of his non-faith as he professes.

God botherers unite!

 
At 5:19 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You make me smile dad. I'm so glad you put in the picture of the missing bits. I was just asking zo what a vernier is and lo and behold ... :-)

Ben

 
At 12:37 am, Blogger auschick said...

Hi Uncle Don :-)

I'll be flying into melbourne this Friday! I'll be back in Tassie on Sunday night and return to america on the 25th.

 

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