Home for the sick...

[liralen]

John's sick, got a bad cold, last night, couldn't sleep, couldn't let me sleep as he was tossing so much, he finally got out of bed around 2, and came back when he could be still. I got up with Jet at 4 am for a bit, and then fell asleep again, and am up with Jet ("It's SUN-day, Momma! You have to get up!")

So I'm home, it seems, for the morning, at least.



Watched the Veggietale's movie of Jonah last night, the sixth time, as we rented it a week ago and it has to go back sometime soon, and "The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything" song is firmly lodged in my head.

Along with the curious fact that while I knew the story of Jonah up to the point where he repented, asked for forgiveness and was given it to be spit up by the whale and he went to Ninivah to deliver God's message to them. I hadn't known that after the message he went and sat on a cliff in the hopes of seeing the city destroyed. And when it wasn't, he was angry at God for sparing his enemies. And the end of the story is just God *asking* Jonah, shouldn't I have as much mercy for them as for you? No resolution IN the story of if Jonah actually accepted that or not, but wow, what a great way to end a story that's supposed to teach moral.

Shouldn't I have as much mercy for your enemies as for you? And the human answer is NO WAY, God, but it's obvious, from the story, that God's mercy *IS* for ones enemies as well as for ones own people. Something Bush might learn from, if he ever actually read the story. Yeesh.

It's also cool to know that even prophets can rage against God, and remain deeply and thoroughly angry at God, too.

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[rmd.livejournal.com]

"The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything"

this shows up occasionally on the kids music radio show that runs on the weekends here. i love it.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

"And I've never been to Boston in the Faaaaall."

*giggles* I love it, especially when Larry takes it way off into left field (I've never thrown mashed potatoes up against the wall...) from the piratey things the other guys sing about.

[archangelbeth]

That is a cool story.

Condolences on sicknesses, and I hope everyone gets better!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! John's gotten worse today, but neither Jet nor I seem to be getting it, thank goodness.

[flit.livejournal.com]

Wow, I hadn't really gotten that at all from the story of Jonah, but then again it's been a looooong time since Sunday school, and I don't even think my Sunday school focused on it much. They liked the three guys in a furnace one a lot!

I do think, hm. The Old Testament God gets a lot of bad rap for being mean, but in a sense there was a distancing effect in the New Testament. Jesus is very cool, but in the Old Testament God talked to his prophets, either directly or through actions, and that also had a lot of impact. He stopped doing that after he had Jesus to do it for him, and while that brought more mercy in, in a way, something is missing. Some of the Old Testament lessens are scary as hell, but some come off pretty much as tough love, and they *are* complicated and people *are* conflicted about them, which is neat.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

They are! And it is neat. I actually went and found a Bible and reread the ending of the story of Jonah and it's nearly exactly as in the movie. Jonah even rants and raves about how it would be better if he just died than to have Ninivah be saved by God. Wow. I've heard that kind of stuff before, and it amazes me to see it just like that in there.

A lot of the old Testiment stories are very human, with characters that have deep and abiding flaws and they seem as much a part of the story as the so called good bits. *grin* As you said. :-) It's interesting to actually go and study them as they are, not as they've been redigested into kid-friendly stories, on the most part. Though the guys at Big Idea did pretty good with this one.