LIKE A SNAKE
Bruce Thielmann, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, tells a story about his tenth grade biology class. One day his teacher made the class watch him feed a live white mouse to his pet four-foot boa constrictor that he kept in a cage in the classroom. When the students gathered around the cage, the shiny, emerald green serpent was lying casually in somewhat beautiful folds in one corner of the cage. The teacher dropped a five-inch mouse into the cage. Totally unafraid, the mouse ran all around the cage, up over the snake, over the folds, and right in front of its face. It seemed to be having a grand old time. Then, slowly but surely, the serpent began to move. It moved so slowly that the only way you could tell was to watch the lines of print on the newspapers in the bottom of the cage disappear beneath its head. The mouse noticed the movement, but didn’t…
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