Allow me one final word on Moses’ one and only Psalm (90). It’s all about our aging and dying versus God’s eternal agelessness. While our beauty wanes, his retains and maybe even increases in glory. Moses seems to have written the poem just before he hiked up Nebo and died, a ripe 120 years old. …
What’s This About the “Beauty of God”? (Psalm 90:17)
I mentioned in previous posts that having turned seventy this year I’m feeling every pain and taking all the pills to prove it. We septuagenarians and beyond may whine and complain, but one thing we can be thankful for is the diminishing struggle against peer pressure! In my case, seventy is the new eighty and …
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Habeas Corpus: What is it and Does Anyone Care?
It doesn’t really inspire much confidence in the Trump inner circle when the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, doesn’t even know what “Habeas Corpus” is, let alone how it directly applies to the legality of the admin’s random and illegal deportations of immigrants (many of whom have a legal right to be here). White …
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What of Old Age and the Beauty of God (Part 2)
“Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures.” (Psalm 90:10) I was in a restaurant with a few of my much younger friends when the five-year old boy sitting next to me in the booth reached up, took a pinch of my sagging neck skin, and said, “Why are you …
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