A Great Phrase
I don’t know the Sheriff of Parker County (and that is probably a good thing – from a “law enforcement perspective,” I mean), but I like his thinking. Evidently he was talking about “rain-wrapped tornadoes” when he was quoted:
Sheriff Larry Fowler said, “You don’t know it’s there till it whacks you.” (Mitch Mitchell, Star-Telegram)
I was wondering about how many things that could be said. For example, it could be said about an invoice with which your wife whacks you when it comes in relationship to something she told you not to buy. I tend to notice it a lot when riding my bike down the freeway on a bug filled night, or speeding through the woods on my “four-wheeler” failing to see the tree limbs lining the trail.
Unfortunately it is also true of some kinds of sin. I know we don’t like thinking about sin – and in a sense it is all the same – but, sometimes, something like an opportunity to gossip, or the loose-lipped comment about another of God’s children, just jumps out and whacks us.
So watch out, will ‘ya!