don't scratch that

In football anything can happen. Watching the Florida Gators 27 play LSU 19 was so exhausting yesterday that I didn't get involved with any other football game, but Michigan 42 Maryland 21 was good. 

FSU - Miami 
7-0
7-7
10-7
17-7
20-7
27-7
27-14
27-21
27-28

was a heartbreaker. For the first time in my years I'm an FSU fan because of liking Willie Taggert and hoping he turns out as well as Bobby Bowden for the Seminoles except for Thanksgiving weekends.


This morning, the Lectionary framers having omitted the worst of it, God again steps back and lets Satan gets the best of Job, the Psalmist bathes in pathos, and the Hebrews reading is magnificent. And/but, unlike Matthew who twice equivocates for adultery, Mark 10:2-16 has Jesus coming down unambiguously on divorce, a tough stance in modern culture and, thank a-flip-of-the-coin, not mine to preach.

Job has a potsherd to scratch with. I recall about age seven, broken out and itching wretchedly with chickenpox, Mama saying "don't scratch, it'll leave scars," and giving me a washcloth to rub with. Kyrie, eleison.