By the hair on my chinny chin chin

I start preparing bible study. I write one sentence then remember I have two annoying hairs on my chin that I have to remove right now!

Then I recall something else I need to do.

It's no wonder prepping takes me so long!

I'm going to do something different tonight in Zac's. It's a bit scary but if the vicar can lead a meditation for a crowd of prison inmates I should be able to do it for the Zac's crew. I just don't know what their response will be. Some I know will love it, but some may be silly, and it needs a peaceful quiet atmosphere. So we'll see. 

Part of the reason for doing it, aside from the fact it was very good, is that I'm getting bored with this letter to the Hebrews. Nobody knows who wrote it and I originally put forward the case for a woman author. I've changed my mind now.

The writer is making a point - telling Jews who converted to Christianity but are now being persecuted and beginning to drift back into old Jewish traditions - that Jesus is superior to all the old ways of doing things. So the writer lists angels, sacrifices, prophets, priests, etc and each time uses basically the same arguments, which boil down to Jesus is better. 

I've been in meetings with men who've heard someone express a point of view and who have then gone on to give exactly the same opinion but in a different way. And, yes, they've usually been men. Hence my conclusion that the writer of the letter to Hebrews is a man.

By the way, how does Jesus make his coffee?

He brews it! 

So, anyway, I'm going to scurry through chapter 8 - why the new covenant is better than the old - and then lead a meditation.

And there are another five chapters to go!

I gave in and made some palmiers. Very simple and tasty.