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We aren’t what we ought to be. We aren’t what we’re going to be. We aren’t what we want to be. But, thank God, we aren’t what we were. –Anonymous

A Recently Spotted Bumper Sticker: “A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.”

Matthew 21:12-22 12 Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer’; but…

[12] And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves, [13] And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye…

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Welcome to Nancy Guthrie’s guided journal “Hoping for Something Better,” which she based on her book of the same title (Tyndale 2007). New journal entries will appear in your profile Monday-Saturday for 6 weeks. If you missed any so far, stay subscribed to this feed and you can begin when it starts over. Be sure…

On Purim one should drink till he cannot tell the difference between “Cursed be Haman” and “Blessed be Mordecai.” –Raba, Talmud: Megilla, 7b Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations.’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

A Hasidic parable tells of a king who quarreled with his son. In a fit of rage, the king exiled his son from the kingdom. Years passed, and the son wandered alone through the world. In time, the king’s heart softened, and he sent ministers to find his son and ask him to return. When…

Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow. –Theodore Epp

That very seeing does not see Itself at all. How can something that cannot see itself See another? –Nagarjuna From “365 Buddha: Daily Meditations,” edited by Jeff Schmidt. Reprinted by arrangement with Tarcher/Putnam, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc.

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