Wednesday, April 20, 2005

KOTH: Peggy the Boggle Champ

All Jesus did that day was tell stories--a long storytelling afternoon.

Peggy the Boggle Champ #9 (rank #57) 4/13/1997



When Peggy goes to Dallas to represent Arlen in the Texas State Boggle Championships, she brings Hank along as her coach. But Hank abandons his coaching duties and sneaks away with his friends to see the Dallas Mower Expo. Meanwhile, back in Arlen, Bobby and Luanne fear that they have ruined the house when Bobby puts a glass on a table without using a coaster.

Quotes:

Hank: There's nothing in Dallas but crackheads and debutantes!

[After losing $13 to Peggy at Boggle.] Minh: Thank you for Boggle lesson, Peggy Hill. Maybe next weekend I teach you mah-jongg. Bring your checkbook!


Analysis:

Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh.

It doesn't take Hank long to forget his first love in this 1. Fortunately for him, he is allowed to experience redemption & restoration not long after his betrayal of what should be & is really important to him. He delivers the best line when he tells Peggy that it doesn't matter where he was, but that he now realizes where it is that he should be.

Peggy responds very uncharacteristcally for her, by not delving into the wrong that Hank has done, but rather allowing for his complete restoration, by her unconditional forgiveness. This example shines brightly on another who forgives kindly & completely.

They'll get to know me by being kindly forgiven,
with the slate of their sins forever wiped clean.


I don't know if you've seen the shirts, but they do ring of truth. To err is human, but to forgive is divine. This is not our original nature or disposition. Thank God He's into making all things new...including us!

Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire. 10Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. 11Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.

Everyone defined & included in Christ...

now that's a world with which I can't wait to make my acquaintanceship.

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