devotion
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Learning to Love: Day 19
For those of you curious about my series on the parsha, I am still continuing it when the reposting of my Learning to Love series is complete. Lord willing, I will be caught up on the parsha by then too.… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 18
The Guitar I have a set of stringsThat I pick and play along,And if I pick and play along enoughIt turns into a song. I have a melody at heartThat molds into my hand.I read the notes across the pageUpon… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 17
Dreams Daydreams never grow oldNo matter how many times toldFrom generation to generationThrough stories of the ideal.I’m waiting for its incarnationSo my dreams can become real,But if there be no good in themIn the end God can see,Then let them… Continue reading
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Learning to Love: Day 12
When You Seek God When you seek God with your whole heartFor what you want to know,He gives no stone in place of bread.What you ask, He will show.Do not inquire of rocks for help.They are not self-aware.Do not consult… Continue reading
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“I Appeared” as the Serpent Lifted Up
This portion of Exodus takes us from God’s imperative on Moses to prophesy to the Hebrews and to Pharaoh, through the initial showdown between Moses and Pharoah’s magicians in Pharoah’s courtroom, and through the first seven plagues on Egypt. Continue reading
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Nitzavim: The Tree that Made Wormwood Sweet
The root bearing poisonous fruit in Deuteronomy chapter 29 is associated according to Hebrew tradition with hemlock, an herb deadly to humans. Socrates was executed by drinking hemlock. This phrase in Deut. 29 literally is translated “a root bearing a… Continue reading
