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Little Red Dot

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This morning while re-arranging things on the coffee table, I heard my cat violently scrambling behind me. I turned to find her fervently chasing the reflection of a glass I had picked up. The sun hit it just right and she couldn't resist throwing herself into the wall to capture the uncapturable! For further enticement, I grabbed the laser pointer. Not knowing that I was the one in control of the little red dot, she would wear herself out for as long as I wanted to be entertained. How many things do we chase after every day, attempting to resolve the unresolvable? Have you ever wondered who is actually controlling that little red dot that we can't seem to resist? King Solomon, the wisest and wealthiest man who ever lived - wrote "Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 2:11). I know this is not exactly an up-lifting thoug