Part 8: Thy Kingdom Come

Chapter 1: Roof Apology

“The Shepherd laughed too. ‘I love doing preposterous things,’ he replied. ‘Why, I don’t know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection. If there is one thing more than another which I should enjoy doing at this moment it is turning a jellyfish into a mountain goat. That is my special work,’ he added with the light of great joy in his face.” 
Hannah Hurnard, Hinds Feet on High Places. (Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, 1975) 55-56.

Saturday, August 8, 2020
	Was at my neighborhood Hispanic market today, standing in the checkout line and observing a man in front of me. The man’s black beard was poking out from beneath his mask and he was trying to purchase a gift card for someone outside. He tells the checker that he is going to make sure that the guy is still out there. Then he jets outside and comes back with the individual in need: a man in his fifties with leathery skin and tattoos up his arms. The bearded man then tells his tattooed acquaintance that he is buying him a ten-dollar gift card and would that be enough? The tattooed man nods and then begins to weep.
	It is then that a grocery store employee, a young lady in her twenties, comes up to the weeping man and tells him that he needs to put on a mask. I had not even noticed that the man in need wasn’t wearing a mask until this moment. The employee presses him repeatedly until he finds a crumbled and probably not very sanitary mask in his pocket.