Sunday-Ps. 114 is today’s psalm. i am getting to take a class from the the eminent scholar Clinton McCann at Eden Seminary, so my interest in the Psalms will only be heightened lately, as we have a good bit of reading.This psalm looks back into the freeing of Israel from Egypt and the water found in the desert. It has the feel of an ancient prayer to me where it looks on the power of God as measured against that symbol of disorder, the sea. Something solid, the mountain, is pictured as skipping like a young calf. How would you imagine the power of God in 2014 images?
Monday- Genesis 50:15-21 -Much of life is a matter of perspective. Do you see the end of an era or the beginning of something new? Do you look out at a field of dandelions and see hundreds of weeds or hundreds of wishes waiting to be made? Joseph has plenty of evil to be angry about, and yet he reaches a point when he can look back and say to his brothers, "Even though you intended to do harm to me, God intended it for good." From God Pause
Tuesday-earthbeat: A Journey Towards Earth's Wellbeing-”In the interminglings of relationship-I may touch your beauty, that in the moisture of the earth and its flowering and fruiting- I may smell your beauty,that in the flowing waters of springs and streams I may taste your beauty, these things I look for this day, O God,these things I look for.” John Philip Newell
Wednesday--”We're all falling. This hand here is falling.-And look at the other one. It's in them all. And yet there is Someone, whose hands infinitely calm, holding up all this falling.”— "Autumn" by Rainer Maria Rilke (translation by Robert Bly)
Thursday-"The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists of listening to them. Just as love of God begins with listening to his word, so the beginning of love for our brothers and sisters is learning to listen to them.”- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Friday-How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings," says Isaiah (52:7). Not how beautiful are the herald's lips, which proclaim the good tidings, or his eyes as he proclaims them, or even the good tidings themselves, but how beautiful are the feet—the feet without which he could never have made it up into the mountains, without which the good tidings would never have been proclaimed at all.Generally speaking, if you want to know who you really are, as distinct from who you like to think you are, keep an eye on where your feet take you.~originally published in Wishful Thinking and later in Beyond Words
Saturday-Tomorrow we read of Paul's injunctions against judging others. Why do we tend to judge negatively? Why is it hard for us to judge others well? Why do we so easily jump on first impressions and appearances as a clue to character? When have judgments interefered with your relationships?
Saturday-Tomorrow we read of Paul's injunctions against judging others. Why do we tend to judge negatively? Why is it hard for us to judge others well? Why do we so easily jump on first impressions and appearances as a clue to character? When have judgments interefered with your relationships?
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