Ear Tuneups!

In the din of voices and the rush of choices that swirl around and assault us each day, tune your ears to wisdom. Begin in humility by fearing God. Simplify your agenda. Seek first understanding so that you can build your life on a firm foundation.

A Prayer begins . . .

Heavenly Father, may we honor your name in all our thoughts, words and deeds. Help us establish healthy relationships. May we stay away from evil traps and concentrate on wisdom.

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Two selected book quotations begin . . .

The Psalms As Personal Letters To God

Philip Yancey, The Bible Jesus Read, Zondervan Publishing House, 1999, p. 112. SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
Keywords: Psalms, spiritual, journals, personal letters, God, lens, reader, audience, public, corporate prayers, Zondervan Publishing House, Yancey, Philip Yancey

"In my fixation with the details of the psalms--their categories, interpretive meaning, logical consistency, poetic form--I had missed the main point, which is that the book of Psalms comprises a sampling of spiritual journals, much like personal letters to God. I had lacked a lens through which to view the book. I must read them as an 'over-the-shoulder' reader since the intended audience was not other people, but God. Even the psalms for public use were designed as corporate prayers: for them too God represented the primary audience."

SoAmazing Review: In The Bible Jesus Read, Yancey, with his inimitable style and refreshing perspective, looks at the portions of the Bible that existed before Jesus was born and that Jesus so often quoted.

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A Half-shy, Half-flamboyant Creature

C. S. Lewis, Miracles, Collier Books, 1960, pp. 56, 67.    SoAmazing.com

Category: Christian Living
Keywords: supernaturalists, nature, landscape, visible, God, ultimate reality, theologians, merry meeting, Collier Books, Lewis, C. S. Lewis

"The Englishness of English is audible only to those who know some other language as well. In the same way for the same reason, only Supernaturalists really see Nature. You must go a little away from her, and then turn around, and look back. Then at last the true landscape will become visible. You must have tasted, however briefly, the pure water from beyond the world before you can be distinctly conscious of the hot, salty tang of Nature's current. To treat her as God, or as Everything, is to lose the whole pith and pleasure of her. Come out, look back, and then you will see . . . this astonishing cataract of bears, babies, and bananas: this immoderate deluge of atoms, orchids, oranges, cancers, canaries, fleas, gases, tornadoes and toads. How could you ever have thought this was the ultimate reality? How could you ever have thought that it was merely a stage-set for the moral drama of men and women? She is herself. Offer her neither worship nor contempt. Meet her and know her. If we are immortal, and if she is doomed (as the scientists tell us) to run down and die, we shall miss this half-shy and half-flamboyant creature, this ogress, this hoyden, this incorrigible fairy, this dumb witch. But the theologians tell us that she, like ourselves, is to be redeemed. The 'vanity' to which she was subjected was her disease, not her essence. She will be cured, but cured in character: not tamed (Heaven forbid) nor sterilized. We shall be able to recognize our old enemy, friend, playfellow and foster-mother, so perfected as to be not less, but more, herself. And that will be a merry meeting."

SoAmazing Review: C. S. Lewis has a way with words. In Miracles, Lewis pulls out the stops and tackles miracles in a most convincing fashion.

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