Most surprisingly, I got on with Jeremiah a bit better than Isaiah! Jeremiah begins so beautifully. Upon hearing his call, Jeremiah says 'oh, but I don't know how to speak because I am just a youth!'. But God says 'don't say that Jeremiah! You will go where I send you and say what I tell [...]
It has been a long time since my last post in this series - three months in fact, which is shocking! Many apologies about that. The truth is... I just got bogged down in all the befuddling language, which is sometimes a bizarre mix of flowery and threatening. I didn't really get it. The autumn [...]
Considering we had a verse from this book of the Bible on the front of our wedding order of service, and considering that I did a reading from this book at a wedding I attended at the weekend, I don't know as much about it as I should! I know there's a lot of metaphor [...]
As a young woman, I could not have been more bored or uninspired by Ecclesiastes. Reading it this time through, I can appreciate it a bit more. I used to think the writer was just like Eeyore. But now I can see some hard won wisdom in it, and I appreciate that the writer is [...]
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