Recalling Shakespeare’s seven ages of man (in As You Like It, II, vii), at almost 75 I find myself entering upon the sixth stage—“the lean and slippered pantaloon.” And like all the elderly, I’ve started to ask some serious questions.
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The Beatitudes: The New Law of the Gospel
In Exodus 20 the Lord God presented the Ten Commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. Some 1300 years later, at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5, Jesus Christ presented a new version of the Table of the Law, known as the Beatitudes, beginning with, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”
What Is the Good News? Hear ye, hear ye!
One of my own favorite lines I’ve ever written is in my book Champagne for the Soul where I say: “If you don’t know the good news, keep asking and asking until the answer that comes provokes an eruption of joy.”
The Gospel According to Job: Five-Minute Version
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Binding Arbitration: The Surprising Answer to Job’s Prayer
If only there were someone to arbitrate between us,
to lay his hand upon us both,
someone to remove God’s rod from me,
so that his terror would frighten me no more. (Job 9:33-4)