Whoever digs a pit may fall into it;\u00a0<\/strong> These are occupational hazards and all occupations have them, some more than others. It’s a fact of life: There’s potential for life-threatening danger lurking at the edges of just about everything. A look at records for employment compensation insurance would likely provide a litany.<\/p>\n But do we not do things just because there’s a little danger? Too much caution could keep us all day in our bedroom. (And who knows what could happen there?)<\/p>\n The other extreme is a \u201cdevil may care\u201d attitude, one that can bring swift consequences that the devil himself would delight in.<\/p>\n Ecclesiastes isn’t warning against the dangers of life, only that life has dangers. And that those dangers are right in the line of what we do.<\/p>\n At least we know the kind they are. He who plays baseball could get hit by a ball, but he won’t drown . . . unless he’s a swimmer; then he could.<\/p>\n When Crocodile Hunter<\/em> Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray, it was tragic, but not inconsistent with his occupation. When Houdini survived all manner of death defying situations in chains and locked cabinets under water and then died from a punch in the stomach, that was non-sequitur.<\/p>\n But non-sequiturs happen too. We just can’t be on our guard about them.<\/p>\n Our dangers are consistent with our activities. The wise will be aware of them and take precautions.<\/p>\n But not too much.<\/p>\n One day we’ll all die from living.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n _______________________<\/p>\n *Ecclesiastes 10:8-9<\/p>\n Next, we’ll be traveling in Baja California, Mexico for about a week, so there’s no saying whether we’ll have regular Blank Slates. Meantime, we’re aware there are hazards, but go we must (and want to) just the same.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Whatever you’re doing, use proper care; there are dangers. Just don’t be too careful; you’ll never leave the house.<\/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\/4694"}],"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=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10751,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/10751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.<\/strong>
\nWhoever quarries stones may be injured by them;<\/strong>
\nwhoever splits logs may be endangered by them.*<\/strong><\/p>\n