In 2005, we decided to have our bathroom redone. Sally spoke to neighbors and a couple was recommended who had worked for three families and did excellent work. She alerted me that the couple was very nice but a bit odd. When I met them, I immediately understood what she meant. The husband seemed to be thirty-five years old and the wife was a tad older……let’s say seventy-two years of age.
They did a wonderful job and Sally loves the heated floor when she awakes on cold winter mornings. A year or so after the work was completed, Sally’s very young husband noticed something unique. He knew that long ago there was a Man who was betrayed by a friend and who was captured near midnight by an unruly mob. At supper that evening, He had predicted that His best friend would deny Him three times before dawn. The records clearly show that He was beaten, spit upon, and unjustly tried for crimes that were never committed.
Sure enough, the supposed friend resolutely denied that he ever knew this Man. It is also recorded that upon the third denial that He looked with disappointment at His friend before the fiasco of a trial. You know the rest of the story.
What on earth does this have to do with the odd couple who reconditioned our tired master bath?
Some months after the job was completed, Sally’s husband noticed a 12″ x 15″ tile in the shower with an image on it. The image is a man with sad eyes and blood trickling down from a cut above his left eye. The disappointment in the eyes is unmistakable. Perhaps that look is what caused the friend to be so distraught when the cock crowed that morning. There are six other tiles in the shower with the exact same image.
When the youngster has messed up he looks at one of the tiles and tries to remember that the friend was forgiven by this Man.
I’ve never called the couple to discuss this and don’t need to. It’s just rather odd that there’d be seven identical tiles in one shower.
** Google Psalm 22 written 700 years before the trial and events that followed.
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