October 15, 2014

• Respite

  What a perfect day...
  On Wednesday I like to watch Father Brown at 3:00,
  and today is all rainy and overcast...
  the perfect day to accept respite without guilt.

  Luke 12:35 (Lynn version)
  'be dressed and ready, and keep the home fires burning... keep the lamps lit to show that you wait and are ready'

  Micah 7
  How miserable I am!
  I feel like the fruit picker after the harvest
  who can find nothing to eat.
  Not a cluster of grapes or a single early fig
  can be found to satisfy my hunger.

  2 The good man is perished out of the earth:
  and there is none upright among men:
  they all lie in wait for blood;
  they hunt every man his brother with a net.

  3 Both their hands are equally skilled at doing evil!
  Officials and judges alike demand bribes.
  The people with influence get what they want,
  and together they scheme to twist justice.

  4 Even the best of them is like a brier;
  the most upright is sharper than a hedge of thorns.
  But our Lord is coming
  and now shall be the time of confusion.

  

  8 Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise;
  when I sit in darkness, the Lord shall be a light unto me.

  9 I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him,
  until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me:
  he will bring me forth to the light,
  and I shall behold his righteousness.

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