Archive for November, 2007
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Wednesday, November 28th, 2007The Crying Game(Boy George) See that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts and actions are pure and true; then your life will be also. ~ Henry Ward Beecher As none can see the wind but in its effects on the trees, neither can we see the emotions but in their effects on the face and body. [...]
Power Of The Mind
Monday, November 26th, 2007People often puzzle over what life means, where we come from and where we are bound. To be anxious and bewildered at times is to be human. For many of us, the past has been painful, the present is insecure and the future uncertain. In the struggle to make sense of life, certain certain activities [...]
Seven things God Hates
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Seven things God Hates A characteristic of ancient Hebrew poetry is to give a numbered list of items — ‘three things and four’, six things and seven’ — as representative of something larger. This feature occurs in Proverbs 6:16-19, where seven sins are listed as being especially hateful to God. They are not ‘seven deadly [...]
Rewards or Results
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007Wisdom teachers were observers as well as thinkers. Although they struggled with the mysteries of life, they also looked at the workaday world closely and critically. They taught us those who faced life honestly. Sometimes the ‘teaching’ was no more than an observation. It contained no instruction, one way or the other. For example, ‘the [...]
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