#scripture
Carry Your Cross
Grant Hope 223
https://www.granthope.net/p/carry-your-cross
https://youtu.be/JzOi0GjNfQ0
Do you long for God with all the affection of Christ?
We dabble in the Qur’án now and then,
Read, and repent, yet fall from Grace again;
But in the goblet is engraved a text
That greets eternally the eyes of men.
قرآن که بهین کلام خوانند اورا
گه گاه نه بر دوام خوانند اورا
در خطِ پیاله آیتی روشن هست
کاندر همه جا مدام خوانند اورا
Omar Khayyám (1048-1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات], Bod. # 6 [tr. Talbot (1908)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/omar-khayyam/77606/
Today's poem, by David Kinloch
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/first-letter-hebrew-women-st-paul/
I’m #Reading God’s Ghostwriters by #CandidaMoss https://bookshop.org/a/13969/9780316564670 (affiliate link) for my diocese’ #EfM #BookClub & found this #Patheos article by #HenryKarlson to be very timely to that: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2025/07/multiple-interpretations-the-key-to-richer-text-engagement/
Moss’ book has me reading #Scripture with new eyes & understanding while Karlson’s essay reinforces how important it is to read with an open heart & open mind. Both serve as vivid reminders that the issues I have with Scripture stem, at least in part, to the perceptions I bring to the reading. Perhaps one of the unspoken (unrecognized?) reasons I am feeling a need to take a deeper dive into my #Faith is to better understand myself as well as my religious beliefs. It’s not deconstruction as much as it is a fuller immersion into my faith & an active, conscious releasing of those aspects of religion & religious teaching that no longer serve me. I’m not abandoning the #JesusMovement as much as trying to live into it.
*Do all things without grumbling!*or disputing!
*Lights in the World!
*Do all things without grumbling!*or disputing!
*Do Not Argue!
*Lights in the World!
*Do all things without grumbling!*or disputing!
*~*Philippians 2:14*~*
*~*Do Not Argue!*~*
*~*Lights in the World!*~*
*~*Do all things without grumbling!*or disputing!*~*
*Have nothing to do with foolish!*ignorant controversies!*you know that they breed quarrels!*& the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone!*able to teach!*patiently enduring evil!
*A Worker Approved by God!
*Have nothing to do with foolish!*ignorant controversies!*you know that they breed quarrels!*& the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone!*able to teach!*patiently enduring evil!
*Arguing!
*A Worker Approved by God!
*~*Have nothing to do with foolish!*ignorant controversies!*you know that they breed quarrels!*& the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone!*able to teach!*patiently enduring evil!*~*
*~*2 Timothy 2:23-24*~*
*~*Arguing!*~*
*~*A Worker Approved by God!*~*
*~*Have nothing to do with foolish!*ignorant controversies!*you know that they breed quarrels!*& the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone!*able to teach!*patiently enduring evil!*~*
*But avoid foolish controversies! *genealogies!*dissensions!*& quarrels about the law!*for they are unprofitable!*& worthless!
*Be Ready for Every Good Work!
*But avoid foolish controversies!*genealogies!*dissensions!*& quarrels about the law!*for they are unprofitable!*& worthless!