Back from a long weekend with Jodie. It was great to just relax and rest. The older I get the better I am at just taking it easy. There is nothing better then listening to Jimmy Buffet to get you ready for a trip to the Caribbean but when you get back he just doesn’t sound quite as good.

I’ve been covered up with your responses to the class on mercy. Seems like we all have the opportunities to be merciful and we all struggle with how to go about it. Friday I got a call from a friend who knew we were headed to Houston. He called to let us know he had driven through there and the traffic demanded a lot of mercy. He said he just wanted to encourage us but I’m pretty sure he just didn’t want to suffer alone.

We may imitate the Deity is all his moral attributes, but mercy is the only one in which we can pretend to equal him. We cannot, indeed, give like God, but we may surely forgive like him.