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David Encounters Saul's Daughter, Karen ... I Mean Michal

2024-09-11 05:30 2 Samuel 6:22 "I will make myself yet more contemptible than this, and I will be abased in your eyes; but the maids of whom you have spoken, by them I shall be held in honor." This is David speaki...

When Evil Isn't Even Acknowledged, Much Less Cut Off

2024-09-10 08:46 Psalm 34:16 "The face of the Lord is against evildoers, to cut off remembrance of them from the earth." There is so much evil going on in our world right now, much more than is being acknowledged ...

I Will Give Thanks to Thee

2024-09-09 07:16 Psalm 108:3. "I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, among the peoples, I will sing praises to thee among the nations." I was literally just singing this on the way home from Mass! The woman who used...

Why All the Rules?

2024-09-06 08:44 Leviticus 11:39 "And if any animal of which you may eat dies he who touches its carcass shall be unclean until the evening." I have to admit, it is often difficult for me to find inspiration in th...

Stop Looking at What We Can See

2024-09-05 09:17 2 Corinthians 4:18 "[B]ecause we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." Pa...

Remembered as the Servant of the Lord

2024-09-04 06:45 Joshua 12:6 "Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them; and Moses the servant of the Lord gave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-t...

Seek God With Nothing But Your Heart

2024-09-02 08:42 Hosea 5:6 "With their flocks and herds they shall go to seek the Lord, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them." God has "withdrawn" from the Jews because "their deeds did not permi...

Recognize Exile When You're In It

2024-08-31 09:48 Sirach 47:24 "Their sins became exceedingly many, so as to remove them from their land." This is an echo of the reading from two days ago in Bending to Bad Leaders. Sirach, like the reading from B...

Bending to Bad Leaders

2024-08-30 09:02 Baruch 2:24 "But we did not obey thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon; and thou hast confirmed thy words, which thou didst speak by thy servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bo...

We've Turned Justice to Poison

2024-08-29 07:08 Amos 6:12 "Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood." God, through Amos, is berating Israel and "...