Daily Office I was the reader last Sunday from 2 Sam.11 and 12. It was a very long reading, but I didn't make any obvious mistakes. But, then I absent mindedly suggested we all sing a canticle instead of recite the canticle. Thank goodness no one started singing. The reading was about Nathan telling King David that he had sinned when he had ( Read more... )

Matt 7:22-27 ( Read more... )

Psalm 8

"You give him mastery over the works of your hands; *
you put all things under his feet:" God has assigned to use the task of mastery of the works of his hands -- we are to nurture, protect, and enhance everything that we encounter ( Read more... )

Psalm 80

"Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven;
behold and tend this vine; *
preserve what your right hand has planted."

We should take care to preserve what we have gained and not allow it to be lost through carelessness.

Leviticus 25

35 If any of your kin fall into difficulty and become dependent on you, you shall support ( Read more... )

Leviticus 19

9 When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap to the very edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. 10 You shall not strip your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the alien: My son was approached by a street person who asked if he ( Read more... )

Psalm 58

"Let them be like the snail that melts away, *
like a stillborn child that never sees the sun." The wicked are like snails that melt away in the sun. Each step they take they loose a part of themselves until finally they are gone and only the slime they left behind remains ( Read more... )

Psalm 50

"You are always speaking evil of your brother * and slandering your own mother's son. "

I have decided to try to say nice things about everyone at work except, possibly, that rotten SOB who is taking too long to fix my pc at work. Woops.

Exodus 34:1-17

"do not let flocks or herds graze in front of that mountain." Was this ( Read more... )

Exodus 33:1-23

"but I will not go up among you, or I would consume you on the way"

Does this insinuate that there are times when it is proper for lawgivers to avoid putting themselves in a position where they have to punish lawbreakers?

"everyone who sought the LORD would go out to the tent of meeting, which was outside the camp." The ( Read more... )

Psa 26
"examine my heart and my mind." There are so many reasons why people could try to help street people. I wonder if many have the desire to impose their concept of right and wrong on a group of desperate people ( Read more... )

Confession

"... we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves." I couldn't help thinking of Kathryn the street person. It is difficult to know how best to meet her needs. We are not doing her a favor by continuing to put her up in motels to keep her off the street. Virginia and I are not so wealthy that we could afford $900 a month to keep ( Read more... )