[Faith-talk] What's on your mind.

[Jorge Paez]

Wow.
Powerful.'
Here's one.
This is from a song, I don't remember the name, I think its by Casting Crowns.
And this is a good reminder for all of us.

It goes something along the lines of
we show only what we're against, not what we're for when we point fingers.




On 10/20/14, Maureen Pranghofer via Faith-talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> From the book The Ancient Jewish Wedding by Jamie Lash (on bookshare)
> This is a paraphrase of something I thought was so beautiful made me feel so
>
> loved.
> In the ancient Jewish world the father of the groom would send his most
> trusted servant to find a bride.  Christ does that for us sending the sHoly
>
> Spirit to search and to pick someone for Himself to woo them to Him.  In the
>
> ancient Jewish world the groom would, in effect, pay a price for his bride.
>
> He would purchase her but it wasn't like buying a slave.  It was that the
> bride was worth so much to him he was willing to pay a price.  Christ paid
> the highest price possible for His church because He loves His bride and is
>
> wooing us to Him.
> Maureen
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poppa Bear via Faith-talk
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2014 12:30 PM
> To: 'Faith-talk,for the discussion of faith and religion'
> Subject: [Faith-talk] What's on your mind.
>
> Hey folks, I was reading a book this morning and thinking about the power
> of
> words and how for blind people, words often can supplement the faculty of
> vision we do not have in a very significant way. I have found that for me,
> words often mean more to me than to my sighted family and friends. Well, to
> jump from that thought to the next, I wanted to see if people wanted to
> post
> just one paragraph from a writing that has impacted them in a way to be a
> significant principle that helps them to embrace or cope with their
> blindness or has helped them to grow Spiritually. I thought this could be a
> way to help us see some of the common ground that some of us stand on
> rather
> than our differences. I think that a paragraph is a nice footprint so that
> we don't start posting complete essays or doctrinal statements and turn
> this
> into a runaway train. Perhaps post the name of the book incase others would
> like to read it further. Also, this doesn't have to be the end all of
> paragraphs, it may be something that is humorous, a dialog between
> characters or a line from a poem, no pressure at all. Well, I'm going to
> knock out the dishes and feed my mangy muts , look forward to reading some
> of your thoughts when I get back.
>
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