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Thru the Eyes of Children

Our Pastor Bill of OVCF spoke those words this last Sunday.
During these trying times, we all need to come center with our faith. To me the left and the right share so much, and yet denies each other the peace that we also need. Some where in the bible of my birth, we are to see the wonder of our world thru the eyes of a child, and not act as children act, needing the parents to love and teach them manners.

Who among us can judge which side the Lord is on?

Becky and I were reading tonight Jeremiah 25 (RSV) tonight and the words that meant the most were v8-9 –

8 “Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Because you have not obeyed my words, 9 behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the LORD, and for Nebuchadrez’zar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

King Nebuchadrez’zar was the lord’s servant, his servant..to do the bidding of the Lord, to teach the lords people a lesson.

Seems if you knew nothing of the meme creator.

Who would you think the left the right, this religion or that, man or woman created the image and the words?

Focus

Focus as a verb can change machines and things, as a noun it can mean a center of interest. A person’s focus can change many times in a short time. The blue river in a tree is one representation of how people were scattered around the world.

True, its in a book that some read and try to believe in. The book to me is many pages and books, and chapters, and verses, and words, and characters, and punctuation in a language that I attempt to understand. All of which are an interpretation of the original written pages of a language, of one people, of years and years ago. Written by a people, a part of one focus.

The focus in the words are about one group of people, just one people.

Yet, what of the many people scattered around the world?

The science of man tends to agree that life started in the region of the book. Many theories and hypotheses abound.

Is it possible that the focus on one people, was but for moments at a time?

Is it possible that the focus was shared with  the people in the scattering?

For before the words were written, the word was  spoken.

Spoken by many people of many languages. Each with their own Focus.

(RSV)
(Read it aloud, and look up the words you do not know, both really can change ones view of the message)

Some things change

Change defined, is in part, to become or to make someone or something different.

I have come to the belief that the word “change” scares the bejeebers out of some people, some who tend to be stuck in their ways. I of course accept change very easily. Except for Facebook and Google for ever changing their interfaces. And all the apps , and ..oh maybe I spoke too soon.

I had an employer that asked that I not use the word change. Did not matter that what was needed was a change,  just use a different word. Then in a hi-rise when I said some walls or pipes might have to change, because the stairs would not fit, the architect used the word massage (5a in link) the area. Ok, Whatever, geee.

Sometimes change is the addition of a child to a family.  A new home and the life from moving one place to another. When the move is of free choice, because of a change in a job, it can be good for some in the family. Yet all in the family may not be happy.

Then comes the job market and people forcing change for many reasons. The reasons for loosing a job really, do not matter to the people without work. They have to change. On the other side those people that caused the change care to different degrees, but their life is still is there.

To the attached words above in the image. There was the lack of light, (the dark, the night) Then there was light. There in, is change.

There was one law, man and woman did not obey, and there was a change. Then people were, and their ways were upsetting. Yet their was one man that stood out. One man, one rule, one tree.

(RSV)
(Read it aloud, and look up the words you do not know, both really can change ones view of the message)