Now in my defense I never said anything about guys being dumb! (Doug: I’m just a dumb boy). I am mom to two of the smartest kids on the face of the earth and they are both boys! Of course, their mom is smarter, but that goes without saying. Their mom is smarter than pretty much everybody! :P

I do watch movies, just not very often. I don’t have that kind of time. Usually if I start to watch a movie I fall asleep right away. I mean, think of all the things you and your wife do with and for your kids. Now take away your wife and it’s all left for you. Think of all the things you and your wife do to keep up a household. Now take her way and it’s all left to you. Now add in a second job and a bit of volunteering as well. I joke with people that I get most of my sleep behind the wheel and the scary thing is that it’s not always a joke.

When I get time a little free time, which for me means the washing machine and the dish washer are both running so I can sit down a minute, I prefer to do what I enjoy, read an interesting book, study Torah, or write something. If I do decide to watch a movie I just want mind candy, a comedy or a chick flick, nothing too long, nothing too serious.

When I want my sharp intellect put to the task I read. As you all have probably deduced by now, I have little patience. Since I speed read I can fly through books in no time at all. Movies are too slow. If they would just write out the script I could have it read in a few minutes and be on to something else!

Now stop bugging me you bully! I think it is your fundamentalist upbringing coming through again that you cannot handle someone who won’t fall into your movie line!

Need to be going here. There is silence in my house which means I need to move laundry from washer to dryer and start another load. Kids will be gone for the weekend, which is nice for me, but….so much work to get them gone!

I was also thinking it would be longer – turned out to be like 15 mins (or shorter?) and it was just Rob Bell talking (acting I would call it).

Rob was right up to a certain point – but I get the feeling this person has never been burnt (as it were) in such a way that made it tough to forgive. Stace found some of the points very good – I found some it very good also.

But, I struggle (not with revenge) but with how the process is supposed to look in a much bigger level – and Bell seemed to know little about that.

Plus, in one section Bell becomes hypocritical. He tells everyone how they are totally forgiven and to not forgive is ‘acting better than God’. Then in one section he turns to the camera and talks about forgiving and not forgetting (even leaving a repeat offender altogether)…but I asked myself…is this what God would do to us (if we were repeat offenders?)? One must conclude ‘yes’ if we are given the biblical directive to do so (to the logical chagrin of Mr. Bell). Again, grace with limits.

But the gesture alone was worth it’s weight in gold and I very much appreciate it!