Well, what do you know...

OK - here it is! The mystery object revealed.

But I imagine some of you will still have no idea what it is or what it is for.

A few of you may recognise it, because you have used one yourself.

Some of you may feel cheated, because you realise that you would never have guessed it and it was unfair of me to tease you with the hope that you might have known.

Some of you may even feel disappointed that it wasn't something more exotic, more beautiful, more interesting even.

Oh - and for those of you who still don't know... it is a capo - a simple device for quickly changing the pitch of a guitar.

Here's another picture to show how it works.

Sorry for causing some of you to lose sleep over it! :-) But, you know, it is worth stopping now and then to remind ourselves of how little we actually do know.

If there is a heaven then, whatever it is like, I am sure it will be full of surprises. There'll be things we thought we knew which will turn out to be completely different, and we'll realise that we didn't know it at all. (People too, of course.)

There will be things we did know but couldn't quite make sense of at the time, because we only had a little bit of the picture, or we saw it only as a dim reflection in a mirror.

We will also realise that we never really knew ourselves (the way God knows us) so there should be plenty to keep us occupied for a while...and even eternity. So if, unlike me, you are not interested in learning new things heaven is going to be a pretty scary "place"!