No posts in 2025 but this four line song given to me became mine in December......
Sea wash over me////Cleanse and make me free////I want a life free from turmoil and strife////I want to discover God....
I sang it to my brother in Philadelphia over the phone. I am expecting to get lines to it in the future.
In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great Discovery that liberty is a product of order.
"Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death." (Wernher Von Braun)
It is hard to believe that the heart beats 100,000 times in a day. But then there are 86,400 seconds in a day. The heart beats about 3.5 million times in a year and in an average lifetime the heart beats more than 2.5 billion times.
The Jabez Prayer is in First Chronicles 4:10. The New King James version of it reads as follows: "Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that your hand would be with me, and that you would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain."
Most translations of the Jabez Prayer are characterized by this sentiment: "that I may not experience pain"rather than that I would not cause pain.
The scholars at Thomas Nelson Publishers "assigned" a merit to Jabez that led him to find favor with God.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and left untried. (G.K. Chesterton)
