By Pastor Tracey Leslie
Scripture: 1 Samuel 24

We have all, I imagine, heard those clichés about enemies.  Let’s see, there’s this one:  “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”  That one has some wisdom in it, I think.  I assume the idea is so that you’ll know what they’ve been up to.  No one wants to be blind-sided by trouble.  There’s also the one:  “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”  I’m not really so sure about the merit of that one.  It assumes that mathematical axiom that two negatives make a positive.  If you ask me, in life, two negatives usually just make things a whole lot worse.  And then, there’s the one:  “With friends like you, who needs enemies?”  That question answers itself, I’d say.

By Pastor Tracey Leslie
Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-13

When I was about seven years old, I thought I wanted to be a nurse in the Air Force.  At that time, there was a commercial showing an Air Force nurse on a plane providing medical treatment to a badly wounded soldier.  It seemed so exciting and exotic and wonderful.  Several months later I had an accident in the bathtub and tore my big toenail loose from my toe.  Looking down at the blood flowing from my own foot, I vomited and then I fainted.  Don’t worry; my mom took care of everything.  And I decided a nurse in the Air Force wasn’t the thing for me.