well I meant it when I typed it ~

Ok, I said "tomorrow"
I meant it when I typed it .   .    . but


well    


you know, "life" happened.

But i didn't exactly do NOTHING!

I have been thinking about blogging. Ok, that sounds totally lame   --   but it isn't. Remember when I rambled about the place in my head that is where I 'hear' what I will write? (if you don't, it's ok, cuz who really pays attention to rambling? I mean, who should? Right?) But ANYWAY ~ in that place I have been mulling what I will write next. I started thinking I would make a new jump   .     .     .     since it has been  sooooooooooooooooo long since I have written anyway   .     .     .    and leap in to the New Testament and write about the SermonS on the Mount. Yup : sermonS!

There is one in Matthew and then another one ~ quite a different one ~ in Luke. I love them. They are quite powerful to me. Then ... while I was thinking about all this and 'speaking the sentences to myself' ... well I tutor. One of my students had Bible homework and ~ yes, you guessed it: the lesson today was from the Matthew sermon. So ~ I was thinking more and again.

I was going to jump right in and begin with the Matthew sermon...I even began to gather the scriptures to back what I was going to talk about but as I 'told my self about it in my head' I began mulling over Matthew, and thinking about who he is, and why he wrote as he did and it got bigger and bigger inside. I also began thinking about Luke...why his sermon is so different...who HE is ~ you know, rambley stuff.

So the long and short of it is that I will start with "who is this Matthew-guy' who wrote a gospel. I will try to start tomorrow. (See, I am slow but I learn! I said "try".) Till then, if you are interested in reading something you might peruse  Matthew starting in about . . . oh chapter one.

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  1. Dennis G. CrumbOctober 28, 2011 at 8:38 AM

    Barbara, Barbara, Barbara, now you know what it is to be me. I start with something simple and then it explodes. To make point A I have to make point subpoint-A-1, A-2, A-3 and many other points to define point A. Always interesting.

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  2. Barb MeyerOctober 28, 2011 at 10:29 AM

    Yup! exactly Dennis!! And that is why I love it when you write about history!!

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