02/24/2009 Tue

My Kindle 2 shipped yesterday, the first day it has been available. I believe this was a day earlier than planned by Amazon so I am hoping it will arrive tomorrow or Thursday. Thursday is its scheduled date to get here. I want to spend some time looking for a good book or two to put on it but I am spending so much time looking on line for jobs that I haven't had the time to spend on choosing books. It won't take me long anyway. I want something light reading and I bet there is a best seller somewhere on Amazon that would fit the bill. Then I might want Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis as I am getting snippets of it from a "Year with C. S. Lewis" daily reading I started on Feb 1. It is really thought provoking and I am a little surprised since it looks so innocuous. Sometimes concise means having to fill in the blanks on your own and I am having to pay close attention to the written words in order to glean their meaning.

Don wrote our Senior Minister telling him how much we appreciate what he is doing with the Year Through the Bible series. He really is doing a wonderfully interesting series of lectures on some of the main topics of the Bible. He even got in a rabbi who made Leviticus interesting. That is some trick if you ask me. But the rabbi made it fascinating. (The rabbi is a conservative Jewish leader. Evidently there are different Jewish interpretations for some of the Torah and every rabbi gets to choose how to interpret the laws for his "congregation". This one is meticulous in following each and every law and he can tell why he interprets things the way he does. The audience asked some really difficult questions which he answered right away and explained why he thinks the way he does. He had obviously already thought the questions through a long time ago and had an immediate answer. The most difficult one was about abortion and whether or not Jewish people thought it was murder. His answer is no due to Exodus 21:22 which has a man tripping a pregnant woman and causing her to lose her baby. The Torah does not say the man who tripped her should be put to death which Rabbi Ezring says the Torah would have done if God had considered this murder. Humans are not considered life until they breathe their first breath outside the womb according to this Jewish interpretation.)

We went to church for a Shrove Tuesday pancake supper and just got back. I told you we eat at church all the time. It is not 100% true but we surely do eat there a lot. Shebra earns her pay as lots of people show up for her food.