Mirrors from my Website blog #2: The Master

Warning: contains religious history references:

Recently there has been a video floating around of Frank Klaus cutting dovetails (using bow saws) in three minutes. If you haven’t seen it yet, here’s the link, but please note: all safety precautions need to be taken. Please fasten your seatbelt, look around you and find the nearest exit, double check your parachute, and make sure your helmet and protective eyewear are in place.

A very long time ago, before there was something called the “New Testament,” God used to show up to the Old Testament folk in strange and unexpected manners. He might show up in a burning bush, or on a mountaintop, or as a soft, gentle breeze, or in a valley of dry, dusty bones. In whatever manner God chose His current self-revelation, the ancient Hebrews knew they were in for something big, as in Charlton Heston and Cecile B. DeMille; something that they had no control over, something that would change their lives for the better and would last forever, and something that kind of set them apart from the other tribes of the Ancient Near East. But they also knew it was something they could only watch, because the Being they were watching was actually DOING things (rather than just talking, like a lot of the other gods,) and because they knew what was happening was just so far beyond themselves. Sometimes you have to watch stuff and spend the rest of your life processing it in order to understand it. Sometimes you never understand it.

I had a similar epiphany watching Mr. Klaus cut his dovetails. Just every now and then you realize you are in the presence of someone who early on discerned what he or she had been born to do, and acted upon it. I want to be that way when I grow up.

-- There's no tool like an old tool...