Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, <\/strong> Where’d that bird come from? And where did it go? That’s what the German Nazis should have been saying to themselves if they wanted to keep their secrets secret, stationed as they were in the frozen north of Norway. As it happened, WWII Germans used a system of anti-submarine nets to protect their bases from submarine attacks. The allies knew these nets existed but needed to know exact details on their location and at which depth they were. So\u2026 local ‘Sami’ people were used to ‘map’ these fjord defenses for the Norwegian resistance, who then passed on the info to the allies.<\/p>\n The point was that to the Germans these Sami were simple sub-humans<\/em> in crude canoes trying to catch fish. The Nazi racial paradigm didn’t enable them to see anything serious in the primitive culture and practices of these people. But in reality the Sami were plumbing the fjords that they already knew so well, measuring depths and taking detailed notes in their head and by making notches on sticks, etc.<\/p>\n It’s funny to think of it, but the Nazis should have been reading Ecclesiastes 10:20.<\/p>\n But then, so should we.<\/p>\n We should know that there’s nothing hidden that won’t be revealed. We should know that we actually control very little. And we should know that attempts at damage control after the fact only make us look worse.<\/p>\n What’s inside always comes out . . . even our private thoughts. It’s best to do what Jesus recommended: Clean up the inside of the cup, then there’s nothing to worry about how the outside looks.<\/p>\n And we won’t have to worry about those little birds <\/p>\n _____________________ What the birds don’t hear, they won’t convey . . . but they hear it all.<\/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\/5140"}],"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=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10744,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/10744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n or curse the rich in your bedroom, <\/strong>
\nbecause a bird of the air may carry your words, <\/strong>
\n and a bird on the wing may report what you say.*<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nI didn’t even notice it was here.
\nJust a bird.<\/p>\n
\ncarrying our words
\nwhere we’d rather they not be heard.<\/p>\n
\n*Ecclesiastes 10:20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"