dW 02.27.09

 

scripture

 

Psalm 51:1-7

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions.

Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge.

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place.

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

 

quote

 

When people wanted to kill a bear in the ancient times, they hung a heavy log over a bowl of honey.  The bear would push the log away in order to eat the honey.  The log would swing back and hit the bear.  The bear would become irritated and push the log even harder, and it would return and hit him harder in return.  This would continue until the log killed the bear.  People behave in the same way when they return evil for the evil they receive from other people.  Can't people be wiser than bears?

Leo Tolstoy