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Photo by Aarón Blanco Tejedor on Unsplash "Heal me because I do not deserve it." He does not say, "Heal me because I am a good man," here. Nor does he suggest any qualities of his character to make him deserving. Rather he pleads his own sin as the reason he requests healing. It gives…

I wondered if it was true years after telling it and hearing it and not questioning it. I guess one gets more skeptical as one ages. Thankfully, it really is true. Here is one quote among many I found: "According to the best accounts of the incident I have heard (many have taken on weird…

Job and His Friends by Ilya Repin (1869) How Are You? It seems like an innocuous greeting. However, you never asked Job. Job 16:16-22,17:1,13-16 My face is red with weeping, and deep darkness is on my eyelids, though there is no violence in my hands, and my prayer is pure. "O earth, do not cover my blood; let…

Perspective, like maturity, cannot be rushed.  We see “Both Sides Now” once we’ve had the time and attention to pay attention and … when we really see, we know that there is much more to see than we know or can know.  And by the way, once you’ve been in the cloud and see it for…

Photo by Heather Zabriskie on Unsplash The years go by so much faster than they used to. Days start with great expectations and we accomplish less than we set out to accomplish and sometimes more and usually more than we think and we step back and scratch our heads with wonder. We've come farther than…