David and Goliath

1597-98; Prado, Madrid

Tonight's reading 1 Samuel 17-18

Key verses:

17:45-47, "Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you and take your head from you. And this day I will give the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines to the birds of the air and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hands.”"

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Happenings:

1. We are looking forward to Rachel's return on Wednesday. Tomorrow is her last full day in Amsterdam. Wednesday she flies to Frankfurt to Dulles and then to Minneapolis
   
2. A storm came through just as we left downtown and our commute home took a little more than an hour