No Stupid Question
I have lived blissfully in ignorance all these years. I did not know a
little known secret regarding the boxes for aluminum foil, plastic stretch wrap
and such like. I always fought the
things when I wanted some aluminum foil, for example. Whenever I tried to pull the foil off the tube,
it would pull the whole tube out of the box. It would land on the floor
unraveling as it went.
I guess ignorance wasn't really bliss.
Someone shared something on Facebook one day. This person showed that some brands had
little slits cut in the ends of the boxes that needed to be pushed in - the
inward folded flaps would then hold the tube in place - making it much easier
to use.
I sprang up from my office chair and scrambled to the cupboard to check out this
life-changing event (It wasn't really all that dramatic with Parkinson's, but
you know what I mean). I looked at our boxes - no such niftiness. I discovered that because we bought the store
brand it didn't have that clever feature. Life is tougher for cheapskates.
I returned to my desk to find that someone had posted, "Are you
kidding me? Who doesn't know this?" among other derogatory things. Was
that really necessary? Evidently, they didn't know what I discovered about
store brand boxes.
I am sure glad that God does not do that when I ask Him a dumb question -
He "upbraideth not." He is not out to make Himself feel superior, but
to be a help and a guide to people like me.
"If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all
men liberally, and upbraideth
not; and it shall be given him." James
1:5
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