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Leah's Legacy

7/30/2017

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Genesis 29: 15-28; Romans 8: 26-39; Matthew 13: 31-33, 44-52
July 30, 2017


Certain families have inside jokes that are around for many years. I am telling one on my Dad today. It is probably 40 some years old now. It begins with Mom cleaning out his car. He, like me, was a rural mail carrier and our cars get very dusty. As Mom went to wipe off the dash board, she saw written in the dust (I write myself notes in the dust too) she saw two words, “glass eye.” Well, she wondered about what this could possibly mean, then went on with her cleaning. That night at supper, we were almost done with the meal when she suddenly remembered and asked Dad, “What in the world does 'wood eye' mean?” Dad thought about it for a few moments, then started laughing. Dad didn't have belly laughs very often, but this was one. Finally, through his laughter he explained that he wrote down those two words to remind himself to tell us a joke he heard on the radio. By this time we were all laughing about the wood eye and hadn't even heard the joke. But here it is...with apologies for a bit of political incorrectness.  ​

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The Esau Syndrome

7/16/2017

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Genesis 25: 19-34; Romans 8: 1-11; Matthew 13:1-9,18-23
July 16, 2017


We move ahead in our story of Genesis. Since we read last week about God's call for Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac, a few years have passed. Sarah has died; Abraham has remarried at the ripe old age, well I don't know exactly, but he was in his 130's! Now it can be an interesting situation when a couple marries late in life. My mother-in-law told me about a song she heard on the Gaither homecoming show last weekend. I did some looking on the internet and found it, I think. I don't know the tune so will recite it to you as a poem, the story of a couple marrying very late in life: SIDE BY SIDE
We got married on, Sunday, The party didn't finish till Monday, And when the guests had gone home, We were all alone, Side by side.
Well we got ready for bed then, And I very nearly dropped dead when, Her teeth and her hair, she placed on the chair, Side by side.
Well the shock did very near kill me, When a glass eye did fall, Then her leg and then her arm, She placed against the chair (wall?),
Well this left me broken hearted, For most of my wife had departed, So I slept on the chair, There was more of her there, Side by Side.

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The Lord Will Provide-Jehovah Jireh

7/9/2017

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Genesis 22:1-14; Romans 7: 15-25a; Matthew 11: 16-19, 25-30
July 9, 2017
Our reading from Genesis begins with these simple words, “God tested Abraham.” Simple words but not a simple passage to study. In fact, this may be one of the hardest passages for us to make sense of in the scriptures. Would God really test anyone in this way? And what would a test by God look like today? Sometimes it seems we are tested when we try to watch what we eat. I've been working at eating healthier and hoping to lose about 15 pounds. Then along comes coffee hour at the First Presbyterian Church. A Test? Last Sunday, Shirley brought me a bag of leftover bars and cookies from coffee hour. I didn't pass, been eating cookies all week. Another test, Julie headed to Mesa and bakes a whole pan of brownies before she leaves. A test of my will power? I passed this one as I brought the brownies to share at work.
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Isaac and Ishmael

7/2/2017

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Genesis 21: 8-21; Romans 6: 12-23; Matthew 10: 40-42
July 2, 2017


As I wrote in the newsletter, I'm in the play Oliver. My role is as Oliver's grandfather but we meet one another for the first time when Oliver tries to pick my pocket. I have no idea at the time he is my grandson and it takes most of the play to figure it out. There is very little back story in the script, but apparently my daughter Agnes became pregnant out of wedlock. I, as Mr. Brownlow in the play, must not have handled the situation well, because Agnes ran away to have the baby. She died in childbirth and that is how Oliver came to be in the orphanage. The script doesn't say this, but I will play it as if I have great regret over sending my daughter away. And, spoiler alert....Oliver and I are reunited as family at the end of the play And, Oliver is played by grandson William!
So I relate this separation of Mr. Brownlow's and his daughter leaving Abraham being separated from his son Ishmael away in today's Old Testament lesson.
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