Ouch (Ex 32/ 82)

I want to return to my nice office.
With all its lovely paperwork, deadlines and comfy chairs.
With its requests from others for help.
NOW. If that's ok.
I want to return to my difficult clients and over-scheduling nightmares.
Because at the moment my body aches.
I'm in pain.
My arms and neck are burnt.
My shins have felt the wrath of a machine that operates at their height with a nasty habit of kicking out like a mule every couple of minutes.
My shoulders are worn out from the labour of mixing cement and trundling wheel barrows.
Trundling them,
Not to market. No.
Not laden with eider and soft lace. No.
But full of cement.
My back has been broken at least 4 times, possibly 7.
But
at
least
I
got
my fence
started.
Whoopee.
Dead.
















Actually I'm not too bad.
Just as well.
As I have to try and finish the posts tomorrow.
I do have a bit of a blister on my thumb.
My wonky thumb.
Looks like a fish.
My thumb, not the blister.
Long story for another time.

Exodus 32
Oh bother. This chapter.
A few things annoy me here.
One.
The people get annoyed that Moses is late back from the chat with God.
Yet.
The cloud is still on the mountain.
God is speaking with thunder, lightning and earthquakes.
Hard to miss that.
And it's only been a few days.
They've seen the plagues.
They've seen the Red Sea divide.
They've seen manna.
They've seen quail in abundance.
They've seen water come from a rock.
They've seen bitter water made good.
But they can't wait until Moses is finished with God.

Two.
Aaron is a fool.
"Oh the people gave me their gold and I threw it in the fire and this golden calf came out. Oh wow"
Oh ppppuuullleeeaaassseee.
Come on bloke. that is weak.
"Oh, but you know the people. They are set on being evil."
Moses probably had a backhander ready about now.

When we make a bad decision, it makes no sense to make it worse.
Aaron's character wouldn't let him own up to a bad call. Instead it made things worse with some half-baked lame excuse.

Moses is able to make God change His mind.
He pleads the case not to obliterate the people for their sin successfully.
Instead of destruction he sent a plague.
Still, Moses got God to change His mind.
That one will mystify me greatly for a while.

Great. Now it's raining outside.
Silly qualification.
As opposed to last week when it rained inside.
Just hope it stops.