Lay Reading

I was the early morning lay reader today. As usual, I just checked to see how many horrific names there were to pronounce and then promptly set aside the scripture. I'm not a terrific bible scholar so I wasn't familiar with the actual passage.

The reading was from 2nd Samuel and was the story of David's son Absalom who gets killed in a pretty gruesome, sad manner and by the time I came to the ending, I could hardly get out the "Absalom, Absaslom" bit. It was a terrible story to have to read in front of a group of people with no warning about the ending.

There's a lesson here, I'm sure. Maybe I'll figure it out later.