A blink happens too quickly: 0.1-0.4 seconds. Thus, the idiom, “in the blink of an eye.”
Despite its speed, a blink can cause living things to miss important things and wonder why suddenly things have changed.
What a blessing that . . .
“God Never Blinks.” That’s what author Regina Brett, a journalist, titled her book about 50 Lessons for Life’s Little Detours.
Most reviewers of the book say the lessons are life changing. As a believer in God’s watchful grace, I say, “Amen.” God is indeed in the details of our life.
These life lessons, when previously published in Brett’s newspaper column, went viral.
Every chapter touched my core, but two of them resonated most with me:
Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.If you don’t ask, you don’t get it. (I first learned this from my American aunt when I was a teenager in the US. She used to prod me in her Bronx drawl, “You ain’t ask no question, you ain’t get no answer.”)
My dauughter-in-love discovered this book on a tiny shelf in the house where our family (a rare time that we were complete) spent a staycation last summer.
I am glad I found it in a bookstore months later. It is one of those books that I read very slowly. Every episode, which is based on Brett’s life, including surviving cancer, made me pause and reflect on my own life.
Brett suggests just focusing on the next right step. If you want to be writer, write every day a line or two (I heard myself speaking those words to would-be authors). Breaking things down into small steps, instead of taking big leaps, simplifies life.
My net take away—as now a widow and still a writer on grace and a Sunday School facilitator—is: God sees every move we make and every thought we have. He rescues us in the blink of an eye, before we could scream, “Help!”
He sees every teardrop of grief.
Unlike mortals who blink up to 19,000 times a day while awake, God never does.
I passed on the book to my Ading Aie, hoping she would pass it on to someone after reading the last page.
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