Mystery

While the book I am almost ready to publish is being edited, I have started a new book. It is my first novel, a work of fiction about something I really know absolutely nothing. Part of it is an endearing dog story, and I know quite a bit about endearing dogs...but the other part is a murder mystery. So I have to educate myself about police protocol, forensics, and the judicial process. My google searches, if Obama's minions are watching, would be rather disturbing to the authorities.

I am blessed with a patient niece who is a deputy Sheriff in Az. She has been a wealth of information, but is about to have a baby so she may be too busy to continue our tutorials. My lawyer son and his law student wife are also swamped with work, so I can only ask them very quick, brief questions. I am at a section in my book where I need to know about Preliminary Hearings for accused murderers. My daughter-in-law suggested I try to find the transcript from the OJ Simpson trial. Excellent idea! So I found a youtube video of the preliminary hearing, or at least part of one day of the hearing. It was 45 minutes long. Ugh. I didn't really want to relive the horror of that time, but it seemed a good way to capture the idea of preliminary hearings, and determine how they go about finding "probable cause."

So early in the morning, before anyone was out on the river except for the hardy fishermen, I headed out in my kayak with my earpiece speaker on and my smartphone cued to the Youtube video. As I skimmed along the river, I lost track of time and place, entranced by the cunning and skill of the attorneys and the investigators of the OJ case. I was amazed by how every little detail became meaningful. The detective noticed, for example, that spider webs hit his face when he walked on the path beyond the famous bloody glove. However, he observed there had been no spiderwebs on the path before he reached the glove. Thus, he concluded the glove had been dropped, and then the person turned back the way he had come. I couldn't remember what they felt that proved. Was it to show they believed someone had intentionally hidden the glove? How incredibly observant to notice spider webs!

And then, the defense attorney grilled the detective for some time on whether his notes were taken on a blank sheet of paper, or on the regulation note pad. The only difference between the two was the regulation notepad had lines. Why had that detail been critical? I don't remember the trial well enough to recall how or if that became an important point.

It amazed me that even though I didn't understand where all those details were leading, it was clear they were building a case. One day all those seemingly irrelevant pieces would all come together and support their conclusion.

How similar that is to the way we must muddle through life, seeking God's will and trying to abide by His plan. So often the little details just do not seem to make sense. We have no idea why we are being forced to endure a certain set of circumstances. Sometimes, we just have to trust that it will all be revealed someday, and that in the end, we will see that every seemingly insignificant detail was critical in building to the conclusion.

And I have it on the highest authority that the conclusion will be glorious.

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Through the blood of his Son, we are set free from our sins. God forgives our failures because of his overflowing kindness. He poured out his kindness by giving us every kind of wisdom and insight when he revealed the mystery of his plan to us. He had decided to do this through Christ. He planned to bring all of history to its goal in Christ. Then Christ would be the head of everything in heaven and on earth. God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends. He planned all of this so that we who had already focused our hope on Christ would praise him and give him glory. (Ephesians 1:7-12 GWT)


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