Keller: timing

It seemed to Jairus and the disciples that Jesus was delaying for no good reason, but they didn't have all the facts.  And so often, if God seems to be unconscionably delaying his grace and committing malpractice in our life, it's because there is some crucial piece of information that we don't yet have, some essential variable that's unavailable to us...

We're not God, but we have such delusions of grandeur that our self-righteousness and arrogance sometimes have to be knocked out of our heart by God's delays.

King's Cross, p66-67

Keller: what we really need

But precisely because of the delay both Jairus and the woman both get more than they asked for.  Be aware that when you go to Jesus for help, you will both give to and get from him far more than you bargained for.  Be patient because the deal often doesn't work out the way you expected.

King's Cross, p64

Quick review: The Nine Tailors

...by Dorothy L Sayers

Continuing my quest through the Lord Peter Wimsey novels, I found a change from the increasingly slim volumes of the recently read stories to a quite substantial book by comparison.  The Wimsey books are odd in that they aren't simply detective stories, but often seem to be looking at an angle or area of life as well.  This time, in addition to Wimsey (who, in my opinion. no longer has enough funny one-liners) and Bunter (who doesn't get to reveal his hidden Jeeves-like talents sufficiently) haring through East Anglia, we also become very competently immersed in the life and history of a village; in bell-ringing (an activity which, I discovered some years ago in another book, is a deep and lifelong compulsion of dense mathematical complexity for some people); in the difficulty and engineering necessities of life in the Fens in the first part of the 20th Century.  And there's a mystery which gradually unravels throughout (I realised who did it about a fifth from the end, but I suspect only because Sayers' clever idea has been pinched on a number of occasions since).

So...well worth reading.