(credit: Varsha Salome)
Even as you hit the fast lane of life with furious strides that brook no brakes, won’t you pause a moment to grab a grain of scriptural truth embedded herein ? (click on hypertext in the Day’s Reading for reference verse)
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God bless
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Olive berries on fig tree?
This is a problem with some people – a split personality, as it were. Based on their upbringing, family background and faith, you expect them to react in a particular fashion to situations. But they disappoint you. They alternate between Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde at irregular intervals; you don’t know which character is going to show up when. It is for a scenario such as this I think, that James writes these memorable verses.
We need to be wholesome, integrated, consistent. It cannot be that we conduct ourselves in a particular fashion on Sundays and quite differently on weekdays.
This is life; not theatre!
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*16 July, setting 1 January as Day 1