I will offer you the sacrifice of thanksgiving* and call upon the Name of the LORD. Psalm 116:15. This Psalm excerpt was included in my Divine Hours morning prayer today. The phrasing “sacrifice of thanksgiving” struck me. According to my two minute google search, in the old days of the Hebrew Bible you would offer…
Twenty-Twenty-Two
What punishments of God are not gifts? From my vantage point on the couch I can see the clouds moving swiftly outside – “scudding” I would say, if I were writing a novel. A cold front is on the way, welcome to all of us as it has been a clammy, stifling 80-something degrees along…
2021 Recap!
As is my wont, I shall check in on the resolutions I made at the end of 2020. TBH I sort of forgot that I even made any, given the circumstances, so whether or not I met them is going to be an adventure of discovery that we shall all take together as I write…
Christmas Math
Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny then a haypenny will do If you haven’t got a haypenny then God bless you! We are readying the sleigh around here. It is seven days until Santa lays a finger the…
Music City and the desert
I flew from NOLA to Nashville on Monday, November 22 for a week of Thanksgiving cheer, and then flew to Arizona on Sunday November 28 for work. I just got back yesterday – I’m laying on the couch as Craig giggles his way through Elf and the Prof serves me bagels and coffee. I went…