Furthermore…

We talked quite a bit about last Sunday’s Jeremiah reading today, and the discussion spilled over to his similarities to Jonah and Job. One of the men asked me, what is the meaning of the word “transgress?”.   After I answered, another of the men said I sounded like an English professor, which I welcomed as a compliment, and I hadn’t even gone into my remarks about the word “Jeremiad,’ one of the few trivia I remember from college theology, which seemed terribly abstruse. One of my preparatory readings about last Sunday’s Gospel, wherein Jesus says  “Nothing is concealed that will not be revealed,
nor secret that will not be known“ contained a conjecture that He was speaking in relation to the contemporary Jewish preoccupation with secrecy which served as a protective measure lest the larger community find out too many things that might be used  to find faults and defame one, but I also let the opportunity to work this in pass unexploited.

Kid whispers to Mom in church:

“Ask Daddy when the Fisheaters start eating the fish!”