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Sabbath, February 8, 2025
If you glanced at yesterday’s Daily Photo Parable (just scroll down if you need to), you noticed a library study booth with caution tape around it. I took that photo while sitting at my favorite study spot, a long counter with a formica top.
As I sit there, I can swivel my head a quarter-turn to the right and see this decorative wall which separates this counter from the rest of the library. Normally, the library patrons on the other side of the wall are quiet, but once in awhile I hear the interactions of a tutor and what sounds like a six-year-old boy. I’m always careful not to show the close-up faces of those I include in these Photo Parables, but if you look through the wall’s center hole you’ll see the forehead of the tutor. Through the quarter-hole at the lower right you’ll see the brown hair of the boy.
I’ve seen them two or three times, and the tutor sometimes listens as the boy reads a story to her. It’s clear that he likes her and seems to be doing his very best. (It might also help that his dad is reading a book a couple of tables away.) Other times she’s showing him vocabulary flash-cards. A couple of weeks ago he was dutifully pronouncing his way through a stack of these cards, saying the words with surprising rapidity. Suddenly, he enthusiastically announced, “I’m rollin’!”
Did you know that Jesus has provided the perfect tutor, One who will patiently guide us as we read the Bible, and put its guidance to work? Listen as the Savior introduces Him:
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. (John 14:26 NKJV)
Want to get to know this Tutor better? Click the link just below:
https://www.bibleinfo.com/en/topics/holy-spirit