December 13, 2023:
Like elephants at the zoo, the sitters are kindly but they're dumb.
They want me to believe. I want to believe. But they're unable to answer questions asked in good faith.
We read in Luke that Jesus was born in a manger in Bethlehem, where shepherds come to see. But Matthew says it was a house, and the visitors were Magi from the east. They can't both be right?
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shalt not want." Wait — I thought we're supposed to want Him?
They give me a child's bible, The Rainbow Bible, inscribed "Ted & Berta Angell, April 27, 1964". It's been at my bedside 62 years.