swing set update

So our close friends Kurt and Shannon Hannah are giving us the rest of the money to purchase the swing set! We are so spoiled by our family and friends. I was so surprised and just overwhelmed at how good people are to us. They are not wealthy and to give in that way is not easy for them. Yet they gave anyway. It is another reminder to me of how God takes care of us above and beyond, and of how important it is to live life with people and carry each other's burdens as if they are your own. I hope someday we can do that for them.

Moses

So I was reading Exodus 4 and came across this part I don't remember reading about before. The story is of Moses agreeing to God's plan for him to go to the Israelites and tell them that he is going to lead them out of Egypt. On his way to them, Moses stops at a lodging place with his wife and son. Verse 24 says that the Lord met Moses there and was about to kill him. But Zipporah, Moses' wife, takes a flint knife and cuts off her son's foreskin and touches Moses' feet with it. She says "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me". And then the passage states that the Lord let him alone after that. My concordence says that Moses' son has to be circumsised before Moses can serve as Israel's deliverer. But what I don't get is that the Lord came to kill him. And if Zipporah hadn't intervened, the picture I get is that God would've killed him. That doesn't make sense to me. Why wouldn't God just tell Moses "Oh, and make sure you circumsise Gershom", rather than coming to kill him for it without any warning? Also, what's the whole thing about the bridegroom of blood? Any insite?