I Can’t Help Myself
Words and Music by Sandra McCracken; from the album “In Feast or Fallow” (Listen while you read) I confess the things I am afraid of: thorns and danger just around the bend I pray for tongues of fire and bands of angels to come and circle ’round me like a fence I lift my eyes…
Continue readingTargum on Psalm 121:2
A targum (see the definition here) continued. Psalm 121:2. My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The Lord, who has the resources The Lord, who is just The Lord, who has the power The Lord, who has the plan The Lord, who has shown His love The Lord, who knows me better…
Continue readingTargum on Psalm 121:1
In the first century AD Jewish Rabbis would give spoken explanations and expansions of the Jewish scriptures known as targumim (singular: “targum“).1 A targum was given in the common language of the day because the Hebrew language was in decline and the people needed an explanation of material that they could no longer understand. There…
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Regardless of today’s outcome, I am very proud to have Scottish and English ancestors when I see how non-violent the campaign for independence has been. As Nahlah Ayed, a reporter for CBC says, . . . this isn’t Braveheart. “There hasn’t been so much as a bloody nose in the modern fight,” says Luke Skipper,…
Continue readingLonging To Reach Home
Part of what attracts me to the writing of C.S. Lewis is the transparency with which he writes. He was a person of immense intellect, but also, immense emotion. He shared these emotions in his writings and prompted his readers to experience similar sentiments. His awe inspiring book, Til We Have Faces, was published in…
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