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<div><br></div><div>Thanks, Jack for your wisdom. Just fairly recently I've come to the realization that the whole Bible (and not just the New Testament) was like an open book exam or "how to manual" of and for life, or a divine message from the ontological deeps to sustain and bolster one's faith journey.</div>
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<div>On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 11:06:06 AM MDT, Jack Gilles via OE <oe@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div>
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<div><div id="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><div>Jann,<div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">I agree that these are indicative statements, not judgement ones. But they are written from the perspective of a person of Faith, one who is awake. </div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Jack</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><div><blockquote class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" type="cite"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621yqt7005654330" id="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621yqtfd17757"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">On Apr 17, 2018, at 11:57, Jann McGuire via OE <<a shape="rect" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" dir="ltr"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">To me, these are just observations of the way life is, the first step in the scientific method.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Love and blessings,</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Jann McGuire</div></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621gmail_extra"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 6:32 PM, Dawn Collins via OE <span class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" dir="ltr"><<a shape="rect" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><blockquote class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Dear Colleagues,</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">I've had the occasion to tarry in my journey of late over three passages of Scripture discussed in our recent House Church worship service this Sunday after Easter here in Denver. Would appreciate any ruminations you care to add to this reflective stew. I admit and give fair warning I have not been taken up into the wisdom of Proverbs over the years as I have with the Psalms. Yet I think there are nuggets of wisdom to be mined for reflection in our meditative study of the Bible.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">.............................. .............................. ............</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name of the wicked will rot.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">- Proverbs 10:7</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">A faithful one will abound with blessings, but s/he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished.<br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">- Proverbs 28:20</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">...and the base (insignificant or lowly) things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are...</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">- I Corinthians1:28</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">And two tangential messages on the pages reviewed that captured my attention:</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Happy are those who are always reverent, but those who harden their hearts will fall into calamity.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">- Proverbs 28:19</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">...as it is written, "Let all who glory, glory in the LORD.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">I Corinthians 1:31</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Your thoughts?</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">G&P,</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">Dawn Collins</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621"></div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">We love the Creator/Source because the Source/Creator loved us first.</div><div class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">- 1 John 4:`19</div></div></div><br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">______________________________ _________________<br clear="none" class="ydp50ee1331yiv2531640621">
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