{"id":1903,"date":"2012-01-25T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T18:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2013-01-05T09:39:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-05T17:39:10","slug":"on-seeing-the-future-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2012\/01\/25\/on-seeing-the-future-not\/","title":{"rendered":"On Seeing the Future \u2013 Not"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sooth Ruth<\/em>, painted from the model earlier this week. Not really a fortune teller at all, but thought she could stand in for our soothsayer here. Maybe a little younger, maybe a little prettier. But who knows? Click on the picture for a larger view, and after that, again.<\/h6>\n

I read an account in the news about a dope ring broken up. The lawmen followed the transport lines, including the movement of two truckers, ferrying legitimate goods with the ill. One of them was religious, the other superstitious. The latter never trucked until a tea reader said the time was right. Actually it wasn’t tea, more like the exoskeletons of dead bugs\u2014something like that. All for a price, of course.<\/p>\n

When it all busted up the trucker squealed, implicating the fortune teller. They questioned her and she defended: \u201cI only told them what they wanted to hear; I can’t see the future!\u201d<\/p>\n

There we have it, folks: The true confessions of a fortune teller.<\/p>\n

As for the religious one, he should have checked his book. “No one knows what is coming\u2014who can tell him what will happen after him?”<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s another from Ecclesiastes* that frees us up (as truth always does). If we can’t know the future, and know that we can’t, then we can quit stressing about it and get on with things.<\/p>\n

It’s the present that’s a gift. Maybe that’s why it’s called that.<\/p>\n

It’s a funny thing about us and God. We who are stuck in the present are all preoccupied about the future; God, who knows the future, is more interested in the present.<\/p>\n

Remember last week’s post, \u201cIt’s NOW that God favors what we do.\u201d**<\/p>\n

The future’s coming fast enough.<\/p>\n

Open your present.<\/p>\n

It’s a gift.<\/p>\n

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_________<\/p>\n

*Ecclesiastes 10:14<\/p>\n

**\u00a0<\/strong>[1\/15\/12]<\/p>\n

Next: Hospitality with a capital “Hhaa.\u201d Coming Friday<\/em><\/p>\n

Feel free to share with a friend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being all preoccupied about the future can cause us to miss the beautifully wrapped gift, “the present.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5694,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/5694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}