Today’s Word
The Royal Rachel (rewind plus)
While he was still speaking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherdess. Genesis 29:9 NASB Shepherdess – Today is my daughter’s birthday. I remember with incredible clarity the day she was born. I was there when she took her first breath. So tiny, so fragile—and loved beyond anything I could have imagined. This was, and is, one…
Unconscionable Lightness (rewind)
“Cry loudly, do not hold back; Raise your voice like a trumpet, and declare to My people their wrongdoing, and to the house of Jacob their sins.” Isaiah 58:1 NASB Wrongdoing – What do you really want? What is so important that everything else pales by comparison? What is the one thing you absolutely must have…
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For the fate of the sons of mankind and the fate of animals is the same. As one dies, so dies the other; indeed, they all have the same breath, and there is no advantage for mankind over animals, for all is futility. Ecclesiastes 3:19 NASB Fate – In Hebrew, the word miqreh comes from…
འཕགས་པའི་བདེན་པ་བཞི་
Your Attention Please The four noble truths – Abraham Heschel wrote: “Only intense self-reflection—at least as powerful as the conditions and falsehood it sought to transcend—could alleviate corruption. As such, this cure arrived at Truth by way of authenticity; it required unrestrained introspection, reflection. This search for increasing, progressive intensity is usually distasteful to man,…
I’m Comfortable
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; Philippians 2:12 NASB Work out – I distinctly remember the conversation. We were discussing the various philosophical ideas about the nature of time. I pressed the other person to reconsider how…
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