I THINK I DO.
I've met several in my lifetime. And they are never wrong. It's funny now that I think about it. I'd love to get all those know-it-alls in the same room and listen to them converse with each other, then have them all vote on the person whom they thought really knew it all!
One time I knew this person who not only knew everything, but could top any experience--good or bad--that I ever had with one worse or better. I got so I just couldn't stand being around that person. I couldn't carry on any normal kind of conversation with them at all. Looking back I can see just how lonely they were--always exaggerating. Needing attention for who they were (or rather what they really thought they weren't.)
Then there are those folks who know everything there is to know about health matters. They can tell you how to prevent everything from cancer to the common cold. Yet, no one will listen to them. If they would, then we wouldn't need chemo, radiation, aspirins or antihistamines. Pity us.
Then there's that political party that knows exactly what's wrong with this country and how to fix everything. And just as soon as they get voted in to do the fixin' they discover things are so messed up by their predecessor that there is no fixin' stuff. Or there's just too many folks in Congress that don't wanna work with them so they can fix stuff like they got voted in to do. It's one of those which came first the elephant or donkey.
Then there are some theologians who have all things all worked out and can tell you exactly how God designed the world to be yesterday, today and tomorrow. But when you begin to question them, they seem to have more questions than answers. Or they turn everything around and answer questions with sentence censoring and paragraph twisting. They take each and every word and dissect it, interpret it and translate it to mean something entirely different than you said you meant it. And they assume they know for a fact what your motive and intent is by the mere question itself. And they conclude you are too ignorant to understand, too lazy to study, or too obtuse and stubborn to hear.
Know what I like about simple people? Real bonafide sincerely simple people? They are humble. They know they don't know. They do not have one pretentious bone in their body. They have zero guile. NONE. They are full of questions. And most of their questions are the most thought-provoking simple questions you'd ever want to consider. That is, if one is not given to being right about every single solidarity thing that has occurred, is occurring or will occur in the future. But if one already has all the answers to all the questions, they find no pleasure in people with ignorant questions.
I think simple people are simply childlike. And such is the kingdom of heaven. Heaven's gonna be made up of childlike folks. I'm glad. Because I think that's where I will be. In the meadows, stringing dandelions and clover necklaces. Watching twelve bees work for a year gathering nectar to make my teaspoon of honey. Dancing in fields of daisies and picking roses without thorns. And all the know-it-alls will be sitting aloft on their pedastals of knowledge and wisdom watching all us simple folk basking in the morning dew and all-day sunshine.
Won't it be bliss? I think so. We will get to drink at the cool bubbling Fountain of Life where we will be filled with satisfaction forever. Totally content. For "blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled." Mt. 5:6. That's a whole bunch different than hungering and thirsting after right-ness, don't you think? I do, but then again, I don't know it all. selahV [copyrighted, SelahV Today, 2007]
