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“For David had done what was pleasing in the Lord's sight and had obeyed the Lord's command throughout his life, except in the case of Uriah the Hittite." I Kings 15:5 I remember reading the roster for the sixth grade basketball team. I felt pretty confident going into the tryouts that I would get on the team. If memory serves me correctly, there was an "A" and a "B" team. Surely I was on one of the lists. Nope. It felt like everyone made a team except me. I learned very quickly the sharp stinging edge of the except . The narrator/author of I Kings was compelled to publish David's except once again. Adultery. Conspiracy to commit murder. It was a very ugly story. David followed God ... most of the time. In Psalm 51, he came to terms with his e xcept ... "Have mercy on me, O God." God did. You and I have some of those excepts too don't we? We can let them haunt us. We can pretend they never happened and hope they go away. We c...