ʾôr

  • FaceTime

    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…