My father loved to quote a line of scripture about humans being fearfully and wonderfully made. All the years of human life have shown instead that we are made often to fear and always to wonder what next.We should have been fearlessly, no, non-defectively made. Now that would have been wonderfully convenient!
If we are indeed wonderfully made, we should be having no fear feasting on all the steamed Maine lobster-in-butter our appetites could accommodate, settle it all with refills of clam chowder, finish off with a blueberry cheesecake, then let the mellow mood float along in a flow of Merlot.
But to do this too often is to be undisciplined. To be undisciplined is to be visited with consequences. And consequences from too much of a good thing is no fun; in other words, too much of a good thing could hasten an end to such; in further words....too much of a good thing is sure to be followed by an uncomfortable acquaintance with the discomforts and ills resulting from our over-indulgences. Only then are we forced to understand that we are, after all, not so wonderfully nor durably made.
Perhaps that’s why no warranty accompanied our delivery. That's life.
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