gwemah air

Name: Chad
Scripture: Judges 10-11; Mark 12:35-13:11
34Then Jephthah came to his home at(AI) Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him(AJ) with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter. 35And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD,(AK) and I cannot take back my vow." 36And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites." 37So she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions." 38So he said, "Go." Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains. 39And at the end of two months, she returned to her father,(AL) who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel 40that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

OAP: Human sacrifice, good times.
I glazed over the rest of Judges, if I even read it, but this one sticks out a bit. I can twist this and derive a few different things, make it applicable to my day to day life. People always try to twist this, I don't think I would "interpret" it to make it more acceptable, but rather just more relevant. Tonight I won't. I am going to accept this at face value. No unfolding.

God, I know people are going to read this. I don't want that to impact this prayer. It is funny though, at least a little bit. It is like the game Mike and I played, I think we are winning. This is interesting, but probably not terribly helpful to the guys, or interesting to them for that matter. I don't care.