Dr. P. Colman

Now I was in deep. “Interesting, I replied.” I really had to be careful now. The guy’s got nearly half the Bible’s list of characters already…probably one of those ‘born-again evangelicals’ everybody’s heard about. I should cut this conversation short right now…

“How many children?” I found myself unwittingly continuing the conversation.

“Four. Two sons, Jonathan and Daniel, and two daughters, Deborah and Esther.

They’re all happily married now, and own their own homes…All but Daniel. He’s still in exile.”

Just as I feared. A real comedian. Probably one of those happily confused, self-appointed souls, or a religious quack who thinks he’s the only one who has all the answers except the one that speaks to family planning…What do they say? ‘God commanded us to multiply and replenish the earth…’ Obviously, no one ever told this guy that he and his clan weren’t expected to do it all by themselves! Did he just say ‘Happily’? What the poor, naïve soul doesn’t know won’t hurt him…No one is ‘happily’ married…I allowed myself a good, reassuring dose of cynicism.

“The sole of the foot teaches us all things.”

“What?!”

“A west-African proverb. It means that sometimes the most inconspicuous part of one’s body can also be the most important…can yield the most truth. You know. A person rarely has an occasion to look at the sole of his/her own foot. Yet, that is precisely the part of the body, which bears the body’s entire weight and is most susceptible to injury. In some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, where the majority of the rural population are frequently shoeless, particularly when they are children, they are in constant danger of injury from thorns, or more life-threatening critters such as scorpions and poisonous ‘pencil vipers.’”






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