Moving on to your future
The other day, out of nowhere, I heard in my mind, "pillar of salt." I don't know if you ever have seemingly random words or phrases pop into your mind or not, but I do sometimes. Usually, I'll follow them up with some thought or googling. The only pillar of salt I know of is in the Bible story of Lot and his wife leaving Sodom and Gomorrah and being told not to look back. Lot's wife looked back, and God then turned her into a pillar of salt. I don't think I've ever given much thought to this since I learned it 40 years ago in Sunday school. What if, like many things, the meaning was actually figurative or symbolic? For those who aren’t familiar with the story, it's basically that these cities had turned away from God and were full of debauchery and awful goings on. Lot and his wife took major issue with this but weren't able to sway anyone's mind to cut out the nonsense, and they were either told by God or decided to pack up an...
