With the setting of todays sun Tisha BAv begins. This is the deepest, the sharpest day of the lament for the destruction of the temple and the scattering of the Children of the Promise. There will be no joy these 24 hours, not even the joy of studying Gods gracious Words of Teaching and Guidance. You all know most of my hobby horses by now -- of which one is that the Fall is the account of many alienations, many estrangements, many exiles, not the least of which is our exile from our own selves. We may differ on Paul. I think he was an inspired genius, myself. But who can deny the experience he describes so well in Romans 7-8. I do these shameful things, and yet it doesnt even feel exactly as though -> I
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 22:32:50 +0000
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