The Bible. Are you intimidated at the thought of reading such a complicated book? Do you find it

daunting or delightful or both? Welcome to the club. The Bible book club where we read every word

of this great book and then study it together.

Last episode, we had that big fight between God and Pharaoh. It went five rounds and go God. God won all five.

He did. However, Pharaoh at times looked like he was out, but he would not stay down that pesky old Pharaoh.

The severity of the impact of these plagues is escalating with each plague.

The plague of the frogs contaminated everything that reeked.

The plague of the gnats, it was physically irritating,

really annoying, just like they were today. The plague of the flies ruined only the land the

Egyptians had. The plague on the livestock killed only the Egyptian animals. And then the plague of

the boils covered only the Egyptian people. And so we've come through these several plagues and now we're going to just keep on going.

It's going to ramp up.

The fight continues.

So when I was growing up, I shared a room with my sister.

And two girls with a lot of stuff meant our room was mostly almost always a mess.

And my mom was constantly telling us to clean it up,

but she was a calm, rational type,

who was rarely ever severe.

But there was this one time when I really procrastinated.

And to make it worse, I was sassy about it.

I said something like, why?

It's my room.

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