Marching Toward the Scaffold

Well, anyone reading Esther with me must surely be on the edge of their seat. Mordecai is on his way toward the scaffold. This reads like a good cliff-hanger coming in the middle of Esther's great plan to save the Jews from the edict commanding their destruction. Tune in tomorrow to see if he makes it.

In all the excitement of the Esther vs. Judith controversy, I failed to appropriately mark the transition from John to Luke. Tonight I will fail to mark it yet again. Let's suffice to say only in this brief post that we move from a spiritual and almost mystical gospel to one that gives perhaps a more day-to-day account of Jesus' time on earth.

I'll conclude tonight by noting that the Psalm for the day (78, split into two halves--one for Morning Prayer and the other half at Evening) is an especially sublime treatment of the question about why God lets evil things happen in the world and what our reaction should be to it.

The Office continues to be immesurably rich, but I continue to be immesurably busy, to that's going to be it for tonight. Peace.