Tag: desire
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The Darkest Evening of the Year
science, and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” for the Winter Solstice
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The Darkest Evening of the Year
According to timeanddate.com, sunset tonight is 5:27 p.m. Eastern Standard Time, after 9 hours, 30 minutes, and 22 seconds of daylight. That’s 15 seconds more daylight than we had last year on the same momentous occasion. I’m grateful for every extra second. I get this way every year, feeling a deep kinship with those ancient […]
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Reflecting on Psalm 84
Where is the Holy One’s dwelling? What place comes to our mind when we think of the presence of God, and would we say, along with the psalmist, that it is “lovely”? The question of where we can expect to encounter God might be the main question we ask ourselves as we are studying Psalm […]
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Shabbat shalom
They shall again live beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden;they shall blossom like the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon. Hosea 14:7 “On the Essence of Shabbat Shuvah”
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Notes on Genesis 3 (Part 1)
The text we are studying for Sunday, September 30 is Genesis 3:8-17 & 22-24, the part of the dire chapter 3 that follows the stomach-churning moment when the humans suddenly realize that they have made a really really bad mistake. I say “stomach-churning” because I have once or twice in my life had the sudden […]
Matters of Interpretation 