Rev. Zach

Job 1:1, 2:1-10      Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12 As I think on the scriptures we have read today, I am reminded of the play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoddard.   The two lead characters stumble upon a traveling band of actors that call themselves “ Tragedians, ” because they only perform tragedies.   When asked if these were works of antiquity, their leader replies: “ We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school.   Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive.   But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood.   Blood is compulsory.   They're all blood, you see. ” Blood is compulsory in the story of human history.   Even as we continue to search for our evolutionary roots we can ’ t help but ask questions about blood.   We spill it.   We keep it.   We honor i...