To All Who Celebrate (and those who don't!)

 

Happy Passover!

Wind

 

The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit. John 3:8

 

Jettison fear

and 

look up

Offend us, Please

 

Deep in her heart she was a punk rock girl. She would grow to be wise and calm. Her eyes would soften. Her voice would become serene. But now, in this moment, she was wild and unlearned and in desperate need of a protector. One had come to her just that morning. He sat with her now, invisible to the other punks, but stronger and braver than any she'd ever known. He whispered in her ear, "Say."

The new professor entered the class with assumed bravado. He had been told they were eager to learn, but was astonished by the welcome they gave him.

"Offend us, please, we have much to learn." 

It was their customary greeting for those who would teach them.

He smiled deeply. In all his days he had not seen humility like this in a classroom, certainly not among the young. How had they come upon it? It was a miracle, like everything else.

He began his lecture. He said man reaches to God with 10,000 religions. He knew much. Thought much. Taught much. Man reaches to God.

"But God reaches to man," said the punk rock girl in the front row. 

"What do you mean?" He asked back.

She said, "You know, Jesus, the Son of God. The Savior of the Jews. God sent Him."

"Oh," he had heard of that one. 

He smiled a bit, but then he wept. Not because she was wrong, or right. He wept because he hadn't thought of it that way before. 

"In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle." 

Gad Saad

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Something I Love More Than Words Can Say

 

Alpacas! There. I said it.

Words of Jesus

 

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who begs from you, and  do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.

  

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. “For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” 

Matthew 5:38-48

Searching

 

Search me, O God, and know my heart!

Try me and know my thoughts!

And see if there be any grievous way in me,

and lead me in the way everlasting!

Psalm 139:23-24