When we need help

I asked Nancy for help. “For 300,” I said. ”Ask me a question.”

Instead of a question, she sent me a coded message. “Proverbs 18:1. In the Holman.”

It’s a kind of code we understand. We understand Bible speak.

So I looked up the sentence she was pointing to, in the book of Proverbs, in the Bible.

One who isolates himself pursues selfish desires;

he rebels against all sound judgment.Proverbs 18:1

I smiled. And started writing. Because I had spent the previous hour not isolating myself, with a group...