the unexpected pitcher

ok, so on the way to church, npr weekend edition profiled a fellow who is currently at the san diego padres training camp...hoping to become the first mit graduate to play major league baseball...........the joke was told....it may just very well take a rocket scientist to be a good pitcher........he may not just be a graduate, he may actually be a phd candidate, though i cannot be sure of those details......he seemed quite personable, and hopeful for this part of his career to 'take off'......at least we know this story to be true.....in sunday school, we were visited for the third-straight sunday by a largish lady with streaked purple hair........who seems to have a changeable story to tell, at best..........my teaching partner sat next to her.....and discovered that she may or may not live in a house she and her mother donated to centre college, and theymay or may not have had a beauty salon in a building that has housed a pediatrician's office for the past 25 years........and she may or may not donate easters to the local children's home.....she demured to comment when someone offered to take these baskets out to the campus, given that she no longer drives............we discussed these lapses at family lunch today...partly because they so trouble me, and also because i want my daughter to know that when she makes up stories, they are just as troubling to her friends...........this is the same person who last week was so gushy (along with her mother) about how true to the bible the mel movie was........these are the times when it is hard to love thy neighbor......and she is who is without sin shall cast the first stone.........my fear is that her stories may discourage others from coming to our class.........pray for us...................