Souls on the Mind
Susie and I watched the Paul Giamatti film, Cold Souls, last night. This is a powerful meditation on a subject not friendly to our materialistic age: What is the soul? In the film Giamatti plays himself, but he is struggling, because of personal angst, to master a part in a Chekov play. He decides, on […]
Live Till You Die
Live Till You Die July/Holiness 14 July 2010 Four teachings for which we should strive, even if we do not fulfill them: devotion to God, gentleness to men, good will to every person, expecting death each day. – Colman mac Beognai, Aipgitir Chrabaid (Irish, 7th century) For to me to live is Christ, and to […]
Psalm 10:5-7 His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Psalm 10:5-7 His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them. He says in his heart, “I shall not be moved; throughout all generations I shall not meet adversity.” His mouth is filled with cursing and deceit and oppression; under […]
The First Commandment No other gods
Deuteronomy 10.14-16
“Behold, to the LORD your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it. Yet the LORD set his heart in love on your fathers and chose their offspring after them, you above all peoples, as you are this day. Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.”