I repeat.....

I wrote possibly the best blog ever and it was so hot that the blog machine took a notion to tautologize it, meaning it kept circling round and round endlessly within the blog maker machine and not posting. If I hadn't stopped the spin cycle it might well have wrecked the whole machine and then where would we be? I can't afford to pay for a new blog maker.

So let me repeat but only in summary fashion since a hot blog is only fun to write once, not twice.

I said Ma and I were going to roll up our sleeves and lay some laminate flooring this weekend, starting tonight. I also said we were going to 'get 'er' done because I wanted to use that phrase which is finding currency among rednecks and the unwashed, a constituency I consider myself part of.

Then I moved on to say that I had an opportunity to preach again and was considering talking about what the body mean in the Lord's supper. Any of you know? I got the blood figured out, but the body? If we eat his body then...........................happens. I think the Romans had a point, how could any credible religion claim to drink the blood and eat the body of its God. A rather wierd concept and obviously a barrier to entry for those shying away from cannibalism.

Even in Paul's day it had been watered down to mean not much at all, to which he responded by pointing out that people got sick and even died when they 'esteemed not' the true meaning of the body in communion.

Current themes are that it symbolizes that we are all of one body, the little pieces of the loaf all going into our tummies and making us one. Nice concept but I think even the Corinthians could have managed that one and avoided dying. Or that the bread is a symbol. Of? Or that the bread is the actual body of Christ. And?

Here's what I think. I think that if you eat the bread there is healing in it. Actual healing power. I reference King Hezekiah who had the people eat the passover lamb and noticed that all were healed when they did so. I also reference the passover event for the same outcome (not readily apparent but concluded by way of other texts).

My new cry is, "There's power in the body!" Think that will sell when I preach or should I just stick to the one loaf-one body theory and keep everybody happy?

Disclaimer: if my first blog appears somewhere near this one I am not responsible. It's the blog making machine finally spitting the original out.

Pa