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"Jesus knelt down and wrote in the sand. He lifted his eyes, and he spoke to each one. 'You without sin, cast the first stone." -"Justified", The Carolina Boys
I was listening to the CD I got down at the gospel concert in Virginia, and the story about the adulteress gets me sniffly every time. There was a song, "Justified", about forgiveness of sins and everything, and I was listening to that story- if you don't remember it, the local authorities were gonna kill this gal cause they'd found her with a guy who wasn't her husband. The religious authorities asked Jesus what they should do, cause they expected he would say "let her go", which contradicted the laws Moses had set down. Then they'd be able to have something to charge him with, discredit him as a teacher, whatever. So Christ just starts writing in the sand, and although the gospel doesn't say what he was writing, I've heard it suggested that he was probably listing the sins of the accusers, and I think that's a pretty decent suggestion. So when he's done, he looks at the guys and he's like, "If any of you haven't ever sinned, go ahead and stone her." And they all left, of course, cause they're losers and they knew it, and moreover, they knew HE knew. So the song was about that, and it made me sniffly and wah. :-)
Today was my last day of helping the teachers move at mom's school, and I have two quotes that I thought were funny.
"Didn't you hear? Ari's got a new job. He's now boss of everyone up to and including God." -Ned, talking about the former head of public schools in the county
"George is buying me a cold one after this. And I haven't drank in over 24 years!!!" -Bob Frizzell, custodian. You and me both, Mr. Frizzell. You and me both.