Sep 30

Old Testament:   Isaiah 9-10
New Testament: Ephesians 3
Psalm:   38-39

Proverbs: 30

• Chronological    (Read the Bible in the chronological order in which its stories and events occurred.)
• Historically  (Read the books of the Bible as they were written historically, according to the estimated date of their writing.)
• Book of Common Prayer  (Daily Old and New Testament readings based on the Book of Common Prayer.)
• Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary) Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with thematically matched Old and New Testament readings.
• Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)  Daily Bible readings that follow the church liturgical year, with sequential stories told across multiple weeks.

Hymn: 198 - Blessed is the Man
Birthdays: 
Anniversary:


Thoughts:
Book of Common Prayer. Psalm 90. Maybe it is the age which I am at. But this Psalm relly spoke to me about how short my life has to go  I am approaching 70 and the Psalm speaks to 70 or 80 being the end of life and that life is full of turmoil and trauma-I do not think mine has been. There is a sense of hopelessness until the Psalmists asks God to Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.  The next day, the pastor talked in Ephesians 5, particularly verse 16, saying Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. What speaks to me is that even though I am retired, I should not let my age hinder me from committing to the work God has have me to do for the rest of my days. September 30, 2023.




Creeds:








Quotes:

A humble person is more concerned
   about what is right than about being right,
   about acting on good ideas than having the ideas,
   about embracing new truth than defending outdated positions,
   about building the team than exalting self,
   about recognizing contribution than being recognized for making it 
     - Steven M.R. Covey, The Speed of Trust, pg 64

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The more man meditates upon good thoughts,
the better will be his world and the world at large.  
    Confucius, unattributed

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...the soul of a free man looks at life
   as a series of problems to be solved
   and solves them,
 while the soul of a slave whines,
   ‘What can I do who am but a slave?’
   George S. Clason, The Richest Man in Babylon, The Camel Trader of Babylon

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If you make a man a symbol of things that are bigger
    than any one person can possibly be,
    you risk stripping that man of his sense
       of who he really is. 
    Hecotr Tobar, Deep, Down, Dark, page 450
       as a quotation of Alberto Iturra

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Satire has weakened in our epoch for several reasons,
  but chiefly, I think, because the world
  has become too absurd to be satirised.
    --GK Chesterton, The Illustrated London News, 
        December 16, 1911, "The Small Pleasures of the Poor"

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We can do no great things,
   only small things with great love.
     - Mother Teresa

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Earth laughs in flowers.   
     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya

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Love always leaves a significant mark 
       --William P. Young, The Shack, pg 96

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 Diary of an Old Soul-MacDonald

     The enemy still hath many things in me;
     Yea, many an evil nest with open hole
     Gapes out to him, at which he enters free.
     But, like the impact of a burning coal,
     His presence mere straight rouses the garrison,
     And all are up in arms, and down on knee,
     Fighting and praying till the foe is gone.