The name of a person you love is more than language–
Tennessee Williams, The Vine
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I can hear the kudzu creeping. Is it weird to say that I can hear you dying like that? Slowly, but viciously, inching your way toward the gray sky, tongue out to catch what was left of the world.
Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things: The Vine
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"But who starts? Who starts?
Are you the ocean? Am I the cliffs up ahead?"
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“The name of a person you love is more than a language.”
The Vine by Tennessee Williams
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Scripture of the Day - March 20, 2024
What were God’s Reasons for a New Race?
From the Bible’s King James ER Version
Musings of Prophet King David re: the Israelite Race:
Psalm 80:8-9, 14-17 You have brought a vine out of Egypt: You have cast out the heathen, and planted it. You prepared room before it, and caused it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
Psalm 80:14-17 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts; look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine, and the VINEYARD which your right hand hath planted; and the BRANCH that YOU MADE STRONG FOR YOURSELF: It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of your countenance.
Let your hand be upon the MAN OF YOUR RIGHT HAND; upon the SON OF MAN whom YOU MADE STRONG FOR YOURSELF!
Psalm 50:5-7 (prophecy for Christ re: His crucifixion) “The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back. I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting. For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore, I shall not be confounded; therefore--have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed."
John 3:14-17 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
By these scripture selections, we see the reason that God birthed the Israelite race—with laws regarding eating habits, and the covenant of the Sabbath (Nehemiah 9:14)—so that when the time was right ("in the fullness of time" Galatians 4:4 & Genesis 3:15)—He could bring forth His only begotten Son, who would be strong enough to carry out His Father's plan to redeem the world back to Himself.
The Father had waited 4,000 years to find the perfect ‘seed’ that would be strong enough to carry out His plan to redeem the world back to Himself; so to reinforce His Son’s perception of the Plan of Salvation, He organized a rendezvous with Moses (representing the Law) and Elijah (representing the Prophets) - to refresh His human memory—reminding Him of all that was written concerning His Death, Burial and Resurrection. Thus, the reason for the event on the Mount of Transfiguration.
But there was another reason for that event: Christ had taken with Him—Peter, James and John—for they would need the imagery of this event, to carry out His purpose and plans for their MINISTRY TO HIS VINE and to HIS BODY ON EARTH (the church) until the time of His coming to punish Jerusalem and the rest of the world in the year 70 AD.
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a street light in Wroclaw, Poland.
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