Random Assumptions.
A confusing letter arrived in our post box on Tuesday.
Looking at the letter I make assumptions.
The sender is careless or in a hurry as the stamps are carelessly placed, upside-down and crooked.
The sender does not care that the Post Office worker will have difficulty to stamp the stamps.
The script indicates an older person: maybe confused. Like me for example!
The sender is not financially well off as the pen is cheap and inconsistent.
The sender knows a little about me – my initials and address.
Sending the letter is important to them because they spend $2.20.
I will probably never know “why”
I don’t cook.
I don’t embroider.
For all my searching and assumptions my knowledge about the sender is so little.
As I sit pondering all the clues my mind is drawn to God’s letter to us.
There are things I know about God but I’m reminded that God is a “mystery.”
His thoughts, His plans, His reasons are hidden in the human questions “Why God?”
My knowledge of God is a mere speck in a pool of human knowledge and outside of humanity is “God” who is completely “other”.
The thing is; the mystery of this letter, may never be solved but the mystery of God will be made clear and we will know Him face to face.