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So I considered all of this carefully, examining all of it: The righteous and the wise and their deeds are in God’s hand, along with both love and hate. People don’t know anything that’s ahead of them.
Ecclesiastes 9:1
These days you don’t often hear folk talk about the hand of God. Why only the one hand anyhow, is one hand all God really needs to manage anything earthly? In all those pages of the bible does God’s other hand ever get a mention? Was it a hygiene thing? Hygiene must have been vitally important back in those Old Testament times. So God would be setting an example using the one hand for all that um… godly stuff and the other hand for… um…
Futball/ soccer/ football fans might recall the last time that the Almighty’s hand got a ton of press, back in World Cup 1986, on the 22nd of June. On that day of celestial intervention, six minutes into the first half of the Argentina vs England game it came to pass that the Argentinian striker Maradona (a suitably biblical sounding chap) scored a goal supposedly with his head (headers are allowed) but more likely with his hand (handers are really not a football thing), or perhaps the hand of God (Hey! I’m not the referee). There was an outcry of course, and a few minutes later Diego Maradona went on to score what has been called the greatest goal of all football games ever, including the ones you played as a kid, with sweaters instead of goalposts, so somehow that proves that God was involved.
That was almost thirty years ago, the last time that anyone got really serious about the hand of God. And believe it or not I am not even interested in football, nor have I read a page of the bible since Sister Cecilia “the flatulent nun” (it only happened once, but once is all you need for a nickname to stick) gave up on me at Catholic school. So why did I see Barbara’s picture and think the hand of God? Your guess is as good as mine, but I’d like to think that the cyclist knew what was ahead, and I’m glad Barbara had the patience to wait for him.
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