Beans, Beans, Good for the Heart

Meandering

MacBook uses Apple Pages not MS Word. Instead of calling up a brand new sheet every morning, my habit is to click yesterday’s sheet, erase it, and use it again, a 21st century palimpsest. In that we no longer erase and reuse parchment or paper, this is the only conceivable use for the word.    

My treadmill’s bark is worse than its bite. Which is worse: treading or dreading treading? Dreading treading is worse, it lasts longer. So upon coming downstairs of a morning, select a mug, turn on the coffeemaker (kettle if it’s teatime), and tread. Think while treading, or read. Thinking or reading passes time more pleasantly, productively than watching the clock.

Mug-of- and -- having heard the dictum of Oz the Great and Terrible -- eat something high in protein within half hour of rising. This morning, other half of yesterday’s can of Heinz estd 1886 Beans with tomato sauce 57 VARIETIES. 

Cold from the fridge, can and spoon. Check the label: 150 calories, 9 grams of protein, not bad. Uh oh, 660 mg of sodium, furosemide time against CHF, won’t do this again, next time read the label first.

Haven’t opened email yet, but headline news, Justin Bieber had a bad birthday in London and a bad week including hospital visit and what appears to have been a fit, a conniption, a little temper tantrum. Getting the sense of a spoiled immature brat whose greatest fan before it's over may be not shrieking girls but mirror and comb. The good news is that this is news instead of something about incoming, eh?

Gospel tomorrow: from Luke 15, Parable of the Prodigal Son. A great story that only appears in Luke. Why? Some scholars say that lacking other attestation, it’s not unlikely Luke wrote it to suit his agenda. But it’s a stretch forcing it to fit Luke’s agenda of gospel and messiah rejected by the Judeans and therefore carried to the Gentiles. Luke’s source is obviously what scholars call “L” but this beloved parable of the prodigal son is a story so clearly out of Jesus‘ heart and off of his lips that it cannot be but dominical.

We’ll talk about it in Sunday School tomorrow morning.

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