I used a shoe lace to tie my strap on the end of my guitar back in the mid 70’s.
Today at church, before we started the musical portion of our time together, I was talking about a hectic pace in life, and our need to slow down and experience “a pause” once in awhile. At that precise moment, the shoe lace holding my guitar broke – after over 30 years of faithful service. I was able to catch the guitar before it hit the ground – but it was still a perfectly timed contradiction to every aspect of the mood and content that I was trying to communicate.
A couple of weeks before that, I was in a particularly heavy and solemn portion of my message when someone’s mobile computing device said, “You’ve got email!” It brought down the house.
Only God is cool enough to engineer such perfect moments!
