Sergeant York on Life

We just finished watching (in pieces) Sergeant York, a 1941 movie about Alvin C. York who was a famous World War I Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Tennessee. In a bio that I read about him, I found an interesting quote. He had just become an elder in his local church, obtained for the first time a good paying job ($1.60/day), and was recently engaged when he got his draft notice. He describes the way it feels when you have your whole life mapped out and out of the blue something changes.

"Life's tol'ably queer. You think you've got a grip on it, then you open your hands and find out there's nothing in them. It doesn't go in straight lines like bees to their hives or quail from the covey. It sort of circles like foxes and goes back again to where it began."

Well said. I've been told by many wise men and women to hold life and it's "accompaniments" open-handed (because none of it really belongs to us anyway!) Thankfully, the One who does hold it all knows exactly where the bee, the quail, and even that circling fox (life) is headed.