For reading today is out of Exodus, chapter 25, beginning in verse 1.

The Lord said to Moses, tell the Israelites to bring man offering.

You're to receive the offering for me from everyone whose heart prompts them to give.

These are the offerings you are to receive from them, gold, silver, and bronze, blue, purple,

and scarlet yarn, and fine linen, gold hair, ramskins, dyed red, and another type of

durable leather, a case you would, olive oil for the light spices for the anointing oil

and for the fragrant incense, and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the effod

and breastplates.

Then have them made into a sanctuary for me, and I will dwell among them.

Take this tabernacle and all its furnishings exactly like the pattern I will show you.

This is the Word of the Lord.

Thanks be to God.

Bye-bye.

When I was in college, I went to see the film, there will be blood, the very night that it came out.

Look, I'm culturally aware enough to know that I'm supposed to really like Daniel

De Lewis and be absolutely taken by the visceral way that he becomes the character.

But to be completely honest, the 19 year old version of me just felt like I watched a

bunch of really intense dramatic scenes that crescendoed into some really hard to look

at violence and then the credits rolled, and I was sort of scratching my head.

So I can remember being on the escalator, moving back down to street level at the AMC

theater in downtown Chicago, chewing on the unpopped kernels in the bottom of my popcorn

bag, listening to my friends, responding the way that I knew I was supposed to be responding,

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