The Weakness We Never Guard
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★After all your careful watching for the corner of the heaven where the cloud is to come from, there will be a cloud, and it will rise somewhere, but you will never know in what quarter. The morrow shall have its own anxieties. After all your fortifying of the castle of your life, there will be some little postern left unguarded, some little weak place in the wall left uncommanded by a battery; and there, where you never look for him the inevitable invader will come in! After all the plunging of the hero in the fabled waters that made him invulnerable, there was the little spot on the heel, and the arrow found its way there!
J. Maclaren.
The point
Despite careful preparation and fortification against life's challenges, there is always an unexpected vulnerability through which trouble enters.