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Friday Night Lights

An evening of praise and worship.

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Why Go to St. Joe’s?

For Kilwins, of course.

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First Things First, I’m a Realist

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November 7, I Timothy 2:5-6

“He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we’ve learned: that there’s one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.”

1 Timothy 2:5-6 MSG – A verse of the day from the Bible presented in Eugene Peterson’s contemporary version called The Message. Accompanied by a personal reflection below.

Did you hear? Eventually, the news is going to get out! It was Paul’s mission to get this news out, and he has accomplished it.  May it be that if you count yourself a believer, you will also do what you can through word and deed to get the word out.

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Green Pepper-Spinach Omelette with a Baked Sweet Potato

That’s my breakfast. What’s yours?

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250/365/02

Crossing over to the dark side.

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Ignorance is (not always) Bliss

For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on un-historic acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

– George Eliot (1819-1880) [Mary Ann Evans]

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“…it was my heart broken by the blight…”

Vespers [In your extended absence, you permit me]

by Louise Glück
In your extended absence, you permit me
use of earth, anticipating
some return on investment. I must report
failure in my assignment, principally
regarding the tomato plants.
I think I should not be encouraged to grow
tomatoes. Or, if I am, you should withhold
the heavy rains, the cold nights that come
so often here, while other regions get
twelve weeks of summer. All this
belongs to you: on the other hand,
I planted the seeds, I watched the first shoots
like wings tearing the soil, and it was my heart
broken by the blight, the black spot so quickly
multiplying in the rows. I doubt
you have a heart, in our understanding of
that term. You who do not discriminate
between the dead and the living, who are, in consequence,
immune to foreshadowing, you may not know
how much terror we bear, the spotted leaf,
the red leaves of the maple falling
even in August, in early darkness: I am responsible
for these vines.
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