John,
When
I first started doing Sudoku, maybe 20 years ago, I did not
do like others were doing, like the front of the book
recommended.
They would write the little numbers, that
could be, in the various spots of the different squares.
I tried that way, but I just couldn't do
very well.
Then I tried, instead, to put dots in the
nine different positions of a square, to indicate the ones
that could be.
The squares, then, would look a little like
the sides of dice.
However, this way, by looking at dots, in
various positions of the 81 squares, I was able to see
patterns.
By seeing the patterns, I was able to then
more quickly solve the puzzles, and work my way up to the
harder & more challenging ones.
Others, looking at all those dots on the
puzzle that I was working on, could not see the patterns
that I saw, and maybe I seemed weird to them.
Why
I wrote that, is because I think you have a very keen
ability to see all kinds of patterns in numbers and number
sequences.
Most other people cannot see what you see,
but that is alright, because you can.
It is truly remarkable, the patterns that
you have seen and shared.
In
a similar way, I think that other writers to FiveDoves, see
patterns in the scriptures, and share them with us, also.
Then, too, there are some like Fay and
Chance, who can clearly see patterns in political trends and
headlines.
And then, they can also, somehow, connect
them to other patterns in the scriptures, which is a talent,
not unlike your own.
Gino
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