The Humility

I just returned from a 24 hour trip to Missouri to visit an old friend in El Dorado Springs.  I hadn’t seen Steve for several years, and sad to say, time hasn’t made him better-looking.  As for wisdom, however, the Lord has made up for His failure to supply the looks and has endowed him with not only a good life partner, a couple of great kids, and true peace and joy, but has also provided him with a wisdom that is both apparent and gracious.
I enjoyed the conversation and time together.  I was able to benefit from the grace of wisdom, and trust they too were benefited by my visit.  I have but one regret…that I didn’t have the time to introduce his daughter (7 years old) to sharps and flats on the piano.
It’s rather dry in that part of the country, and people are getting a little nervous about the spring crops.  That’s an agricultural area, and rain is always the principle topic of conversation in the coffee shops and in chance meetings with others of like mind.  Even people like Steve, whose vocation is in no way agricultural, rely on the rain for the continued stirring of the economic engine that keeps him and his family in clothes and under a roof.
Kind of makes one think that perhaps we don’t have the tiger by the tail after all in this great nation of ours.  Kind of gets one to understanding that the Good Lord still has the final say about whether we languish or prosper.  Kind of brings on the humility.