Fat Faith

Their heart is insensitive, like fat, but I delight in Your Law. Psalm 119:70  NASB Insensitive – Every so often as I walk the streets in Italy a man or woman will approach me begging for money.  I guess I still look too much like a tourist so I appear to be susceptible to the request.  I am…

Ashes to Ashes

My soul is satisfied as with [d]marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.  Psalm 63:5  NASB Marrow and fatness – What does David’s poetry have to do with the official English Burial Service?  Well, “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” comes from the Burial Service, not the Bible.  It is supposed to be derived…