Genesis 16-21

So still haven't given Abram kids, dude is nearly 100 and God just keeps being like "Patience young padawan." His wife talks him into knocking up the servant but then she treats the servant badly after seeing how she reacted to realizing she was pregnant. The servant runs off but some angels tell her to go back, so she does.

God tells him that his son and basically everyone else needs to be circumcised from day 8. So there is a circumcision party and the entire city showed up... THE SAME DAY. He must have some clout to invite all the males over one day. "Hey Bob, we're having a circumcision party this afternoon, hope to see you there."

God plans on destroying some city's but Abraham talks him into only doing it if there was less than 10 good people in the city. Apparently there wasn't because some angels show up and nearly get gang raped so they blind a bunch of people and tell Lor (Who tried to protect the angels by whoring his daughters) to take his loved ones far away and don't look back. His daughters boyfriends don't believe Lor and so Lor, his wife, and daughters leave. But alas his wife looks back and is smited. His daughters are worried about the family dieing off and so they get their dad black out drunk on wine and get themselves knocked up. (I didn't think alcohol worked that way, but whatev)

Abraham is back to his old "My wife is my sister" self and rips off another leader.

Abraham finally has a son with his wife and she has the servant thrown out.

Lastly there are two stories about a well, but I think they are talking about the same well. Yet I am not sure because I am tired and can't read chapter 21 again.

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Genesis 12-15

Strange Rituals

So apparently in ancient times, you cut some animals in half and walk between them and that is as good as a pinky swear. I almost wish I could know the origin of that ritual, because I am drawing a blank on what it could be. The icing on the cake is that God is a "smoking firepot," who knew. Though if I saw a smoking firepot appear and pass between animals I just cut in half, I would be stunned (And would check myself into the ER).

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I think I have spread myself too thin. Today at church I had a reminder that I am in an environment that is foreign, strange, and I don't feel like one of the rest of "us". It felt a bit like I was in the movie iRobot, peoples shit malfunctioning around me (I seriously don't know how to use a mac). But it made me think about my interactions with many of the members. The things they think are funny and fun; I don't think that of those things. I am there because I have made some friends there and they ask me to be there. But I think the honeymoon phase is fading and I don't share their motivations. I give 110% when it comes to the quality of their image, but I often feel like we are on different pages and they change what they are doing so much and fill me in at the last second. I am tired, I can't do everything despite how much I try. It used to make me happy making others happy, but I don't know I can say that anymore and that is scary.