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Make Your face shine upon Your servant, and teach me Your statutes.  Psalm 119:135  NASB Shine upon – An idiom, of course.  But a nice one with a long, long history.  The idiom is based on the verb ʾôr, found first is the fifth verse of Genesis.  It means “to become light, to shine.” “Light is…

The Objective of Conversation

Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; save me in Your lovingkindness.  Psalm 31:16  NASB Shine upon– Facebook is a failure.  So is texting, and any other form of personal communication that diminishes the human requirement of face-to-face relationship.  Yes, all of those electronic (and other) forms of communication convey information, but they do not allow real…