Tuesday, June 11, 2002
Tuesday, June 11, 2002
The LORD will guide you continually, and satisfy your needs in parched places,
and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water,
whose waters never fail.
Now, this hotel has a tradition of catering to its guests' whims. So when Crichton returned to
the same hotel a year later he found a nice room with a peculiar feature: pieces of tape ran
down the front of the desk drawers.
The staff probably thought, "Who knows why the guy likes it? But he always places tape on
the outside of the desk, so make sure they're taped shut on arrival so Mr. Crichton will be
comfortable."
The hotel staff was trying to please. They simply had insufficient knowledge of Mr. Crichton's
needs. God has no such problem. He knows our needs and is able to meet them.
(Isaiah 58.11
NRSV)
An interesting story is told about writer Michael Crichton who was revising a screenplay at a
posh English hotel by cutting apart and taping back together pieces of the script. To get the
long pieces of tape he needed, he ran pieces of tape down the front of the desk drawers so
that it lightly stuck to the knobs. Then, when he was ready for a piece of tape, all he had to do
was cut between the knobs. For the several weeks he was at this hotel he continued this
practice.
God of grace, thank you for knowing my real needs and for meeting them without me even
sometimes knowing it. Amen.
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