God Is Not A Delivery Man

But you have to go get it

I am told that the good Lord works in mysterious ways. I don’t find this method that mysterious, however. It actually seems quite logical on this end.

Over three months in 2006, as her five children grew more emaciated and listless by the day, Estelle Walker made no move to find a job, no effort to scrounge up a meal, her kids told a jury yesterday. “We were supposed to wait for God to provide,” said Walker’s oldest daughter, now 21. “And that’s what we did.”

I wonder how that worked out.

At one point, the daughter said, she and her siblings went 11 days without food. When police were at last summoned to the Sussex County cabin by neighbors, investigators found the children so malnourished they had difficulty talking.

How does someone get to believe that a “god” is going to actually provide edible food for her and her family? Was Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs that persuasive? This woman should be put in the loony bin with all the other folk talking to voices in their head.

Walker, 50, of Brooklyn, is charged with four counts of second-degree child endangerment. If convicted, she faces up to 10 years in prison on each count.

See? Nothing “mysterious” about his ways. Makes sense to me.