Wars have begun and ended at this table. It is a place to hide in the shadow of terror. A place to celebrate the terrible victory. We have given birth on this table, and have prepared our parents for burial here. At this table we sing with joy, with sorrow. We pray of suffering a...
A place or point where something deviates from a straight path Verb ▲ To jump, leap or spring over something “Ticket barriers at stations slow down passenger flow, but the determined non-payer can stillvaultover them, or sneak through behind a legitimate ticketholder.” ...
of a total appraised value of $2028.91, including the dwelling house and land that goes with it, that the said petitioner has paid the expenses and cost of last illness and burial of deceased, and the costs of administration, that no homestead has ever...
It is the most sacred place on earth for the Jews. And now Jesus is telling them that this Temple has been taken over by Satan. In another place Jesus says, “My house shall be called a house of prayer, but you have made it into a den of thieves.” The satanic world has ...
On this Earth Day 2015, we might well honor this need in ourselves for such sanctuaries of life. Theethical standardof “going on the side of life” becomes our own when we work to make any place safe for nature’s lives. Imagine a bumblebee happily coming upon an evergreen huckleberry...
In chapter 35 it is clearly laid out that God thinks of these people and provided a safe place for them. We don’t often think of murderers (or someone who accidentally killed someone) as oppressed, but there are circumstances where they would receive God’s full protection because revenge...
In another place I write about what I believe “power” is. In this case, Paul speaks of the Resurrection as being one of the greatest displays of God’s power. The word Paul uses in his letter to the Philippian Church is the same word Jesus used when He told the Disciples they’d...
The pediatric (儿科的) specialist tells the parents, “There is very little hope. Be prepared for the worst.” Karen and her husband contact a local cemetery(墓地)about a burial plot. They have fixed up a special room in their home for the new baby, but now they plan a funeral. ...
Even with word for word translation, it is still very puzzling to the modern reader in trying to figure what all these means. This is a saying taken from the Classics, 山經 (The Mountain Classic) and 相冢書(The Book of Physiognomy & Burial Mounds). Here a 葬師 is a geomancer skilled...
Had the sight lines that span across London not been so vigorously put in place by government officials, our present city’s skyline would indeed look very different from what it currently is, and more than likely not for the better. Laws are in effect to prevent the obstruction of key vi...