I have always loved going to Sunday school and church.

When I was a little girl, it meant getting dressed up in pretty clothes and getting to see friends. In college, it was often a date with a handsome young man in a three-piece suit. Love three-piece suits.

I am not a biblical scholar, but along the way, I learned a lot of stuff. I can certainly find any book in the Bible quick as a wink. I can turn to key verses in moments of grief or fear or joy.

When I started writing here many years ago, I never intended to be political. I meant to write about my daily life, emphasis on puppies and gardens and kayaking and holidays.

These days, many of them, I cannot write about rainbows and butterflies.

Do you ever fantasize about being in a certain place at a certain time and saying just the right thing?

Yesterday, I would have said, “Mr. President, will you read to us from that ceremonial ‘state’ bible you are carrying? May I suggest 1 Timothy 3: 1-3.”

How long do you think it would have taken him to find First Timothy?

“The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable . . . “

For some reason, I actually knew this verse. For more, I turned to a concordance in the back of one of the Bibles I have here at 1880. I looked under “leadership.”

If you don’t have a bunch of old Bibles gathering dust on your shelves, just Google something like “Bible verses, evil leadership.”

Jeremiah 23:1-4 will pop up. How long do you think it would have taken POTUS to find Jeremiah? 

“Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture!” declares the Lord. Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, concerning the shepherds who care for my people: “You have scattered my flock and have driven them away, and you have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for your evil deeds, declares the Lord.”