HELP

“HELP!” Rev. Dr. Larry Delano Coleman Tuesday, August 25, 2015 Help comes in many forms. Some help is easily recognized. Other help is not so easily recognized. Some help is welcomed. Some help is resented. All help is salubrious and appreciated. No “help” ever is injurious. Some help is immediate. Other help takes years, even decades, maybe centuries to activate. You shall know it by its fruits, if it helps, when it helps. An old lawyer once told me, “An ounce of preparation outweighs a pound of brilliance.” That helped. A late historian once told me, “Accuracy trounces error, as specificity, generality.” More Help. Euclid’s Elements teaches me “Prove and demonstrate all things, repeatedly, recursively.” Sublime Help. The Bible and the Quran and Lao Szu and Buddha embodied all the above kinds of help. Supreme Help. Similarly have these helped: Imhotep, Aesop, Plato, Augustine, Emerson, Einstein, Carver, et al. Extraordinary Help. Dear Reader, you help. By reading, understanding, sharing these words/ideas, you help. Indeed, the Greatest HELP of all, after Jesus Christ, is: YOU!