It all depends on your point of view.

So much depends upon a person’s point of view. If there’s anything that ties the 3 disparate lessons together today it is the fact that with God in the picture things are never quite what they seem. Springs of water in a desert – a new thing – new life where there was no life at all; a race where even someone in my physical shape is in the running as well as tiny babies with no teeth who are unable to walk and little old ladies like my nearly 98 year old mother who also has no teeth and cannot walk but a few steps without her walker or a wheelchair; and finally a vibrantly alive dinner guest who has just shown power over death by raising “not merely dead but most sincerely dead” Lazarus – and this man is anointed for burial.