Two Jewish Heroic Women
“…until modern times no woman was allowed to read her book aloud, although its reading is mandated on the holiday.”
“…until modern times no woman was allowed to read her book aloud, although its reading is mandated on the holiday.”
“The gracious welcome I received when I finally heard the call to begin again, from the ground up was a blessing, a gift. I didn’t seek it, and in fact tried to duck it.”
“I think we have become too busy. I think we have to stop doing and start praying, listening, with open eyes and ears.”
“If we search around the Gospels and Epistles we find the irony that we find freedom if we submit and become slaves, and then children of the Father in Christ. This is a complex teaching about obedience and submission.”
“We are co-conspirators with the Holy Spirit in this Godly challenge to convert the world, sent out two by two with a lot of dust on our Birkenstocks.”
“Each of these sins – loss of faith, loss of hope, loss of patience, loss of humility (pride), and loss of serenity (avarice) – are pitfalls in our living, as well as our dying.”
“Everybody wants to believe they are in the light. Everybody wants to believe they (alone) hear the Spirit. And everybody seems to forget that all that comes from above, not from the world of flesh, our world, our incarnate political world. A deafening world drowning out the Spirit.”
“The transfiguration is a pivotal miracle. Jesus the man, up the mountain with his disciples and friends, is seen in his Glory as a creature of pure energy, of Light, a blinding reflection of God his Father. That is the glory that we aspire to when we pray, follow, obey, confess, and live out our mortal lives, filled with the immortal Spirit of God, Spirit of Christ, and the promise of Life in Light, immortal in His presence, in his Love.”
“If we, as a Church, as Christians, can’t come around to living in Jesus, we will destroy the Church.”
“How are we like Mary of Magdala, sister, disciple, even Apostle, lover of her Lord?”