Yesterday, I wrote about not seeing the light because I was looking into a dark boxcar – a story going back 60 years. Here’s a more recent event illustrating the same thing.
Do you play Wordle, the daily word game now hosted by the New York Times? You get six guess to find a five-letter word with feedback in the form of green = right letter in the right place and yellow = right letter in the wrong place.
Wednesday’s puzzle was a challenge, after three guesses I had R at the end, but I and E in the wrong place:
From time to time, I need a little help. I had been using a crossword puzzle solver site which allows you to put in the letters you know, and it gives you all possible answers. It’s OK, but often I’d have to wade through a lot of answers that used letters that had already been ruled out.
Recently, I discovered a web site specifically for Wordle in which you could tell it what letters were wrong. A big help. But for this puzzle, it didn’t know any words that ended in R and used an I that didn’t have an E in the fourth position:
Now what? Back to my crossword puzzle solver. I gave it E in the second position and I in the fourth position, along with an ending R:
I couldn’t use the first two since I knew I had no A. Never heard of the second two, so I played KEFIR:
Bingo! Like yesterday’s story: you can’t see the light if you’re looking in the wrong place. Today, you can’t find the answer if you’re using the wrong tool.
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. (Isaiah 8.20, NKJV)
PS On Friday, I encouraged us to pray for the meeting between Presidents Trump and Putin. Keep it up! There’s another meeting Monday:
A host of European leaders, including Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer will join Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for talks at the White House with President Donald Trump.
Monday’s talks follow Trump’s Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, after which Trump shifted his position and said he is focusing directly on securing a lasting peace deal in Ukraine, rather than starting with a ceasefire. This appeared to align with Putin’s own aims. – CNN email, August 17, 2025