What to Do with Tricky Mail

What to Do with Tricky Mail
2 Kings 19:1-37

I used to be the principal of a seminary in England; being a principal is a cross between being a president and a provost in the United States. From Monday to Friday my assistant would open the mail, but on Saturday I would do so and thus be the first person to see the tricky letters. Among them there might be one telling me that the bishops are reducing the number of people we can admit next year. Or the university with which we are affiliated might be changing the regulations that govern degrees in a way that will be complicated to implement in the seminary. Or a local rector might be complaining about something a student has done in his parish. (Or even a weird seminary in California might be wanting to offer me a job.) I used then to be glad that I could do what Hezekiah does in this story. I don’t think I ever literally stood in the middle of my office and held up to God one of those tricky letters and said, “Look at this!” But in my imagination that’s what I was doing...