Hawkeye Pierce and MASH

Just when I think I have seen every MASH episode, a new one shows up and leaves me laughing.  That is the point of the show.  Despite the war, we laugh--breath out and in--and let go and experience a taste of grace.  It is not dark humor in the pathos of war. The sense of humor marks us as humans--and in MASH--it never seems to be the casualty--but goes on--even after Henry's plane goes down and he dies. 

The show I saw tonight was titled, "All for the want of a boot." The hole in Hawkeye's boot in the cold winter leads him to do anything--and get everyone to do just about anything that ultimately can lead to getting new boots.  He bargains away creating a long list of "if you do this, then I will do that" and so on through a dozen people until in the end Hawkeye is to get his boot.  The plan ultimately fails.  The promises are revoked one by one like dominoes. Hawkeye loses his chance to get new boots.  The last scene has him walking out with a golf bag on one leg. 

And is that what we say about grace?  Is it ever revoked?  Does God go back on his word or give his Word in Jesus Christ?  It ought to make us sit, relax, and breathe in as we all sing "amazing grace."