Monthly Archives: April 2019

A Question A Day From Rory #8

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Today I am answering question #8 out of 9 from  A LIST OF THOUGHT PROVOKERS FROM A GUY CALLED A BLOKE.

You can click the link above to learn more about the asker of the questions, Rory, A guy called a bloke.

This question was actually the one that grabbed my attention and I have been dying to take a crack at it.

What is the difference between innocence and ignorance?

Ok I am going to take this from the standpoint of Christian thought.

First innocence is a condition of the heart while ignorance is a condition of the mind.

Innocence is a type of purity which involves the absence of evil or wickedness. We would say a truly innocent person has no wickedness in them while a reprobate person has no goodness in them. Innocence exists only in the person of God currently and is unknown in our current existence except in our experience with the Divine. It is unknown in humankind as all of us are born with a mixture of both good and evil inside of us. That mixture renders us by definition- not innocent.

Now ignorance is a simply the quality of not knowing something. You can be ignorant of anything. Being ignorant is not necessarily a commentary on your personhood. Although being ignorant puts a person at a disadvantage and sometimes casts the person holding the quality in a bad light.

In Christ’s second coming, Christ will restore innocence and do away with all ignorance.

 

A Question a Day From Rory #7

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Well I am almost to the end of answering these 9 very thought provoking questions FROM A GUY CALLED A BLOKE!

These have been such great questions and fun to answer and they have certainly spawned some great conversations across the  blogosphere. So thank you Rory!

Here is question number 7.  When you have finished reading my response take a jaunt over to A GUY CALLED A BLOKE and see what else is there. Click the underlined link above to be teleported there in a jiffy!

What is your greatest fear and has it ever come true?

I suppose at the heart of things I have a lot of fears, mostly of not being enough in various ways for the people around me. Yes this particular fear has been made real on more than one occasion.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Walk A Mile

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This week’s FUN FOTO CHALLENGE FROM CEE HAS US WALKING ALONG OUR FAVORITE TRAILS AND PATHWAYS.

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Here are some of mine. When you have finished here please click the link above and travel over to Cee’s place to see other pathways chosen and traveled.

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The pathway at our local walk to fight cancer. It is the second largest  fight against cancer walk in the country.

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The watery path through Killarney

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The Toy Town Bike Path

 

 

 

Morning Direction From Scripture 4-12-19

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O God, the nations have invaded your inheritance;
    they have defiled your holy temple,
    they have reduced Jerusalem to rubble.
2 They have left the dead bodies of your servants
    as food for the birds of the sky,
    the flesh of your own people for the animals of the wild.
3 They have poured out blood like water
    all around Jerusalem,
    and there is no one to bury the dead.
4 We are objects of contempt to our neighbors,
    of scorn and derision to those around us.

5 How long, Lord? Will you be angry forever?
    How long will your jealousy burn like fire?
6 Pour out your wrath on the nations
    that do not acknowledge you,
on the kingdoms
    that do not call on your name;
7 for they have devoured Jacob
    and devastated his homeland. PSalm 79: 1-7

How long does God’s anger last?

Morning Direction from Scripture 4-11-19

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But they put God to the test
    and rebelled against the Most High;
    they did not keep his statutes.
57 Like their ancestors they were disloyal and faithless,
    as unreliable as a faulty bow.
58 They angered him with their high places;
    they aroused his jealousy with their idols.
59 When God heard them, he was furious;
    he rejected Israel completely.
60 He abandoned the tabernacle of Shiloh,
    the tent he had set up among humans.
61 He sent the ark of his might into captivity,
    his splendor into the hands of the enemy.
62 He gave his people over to the sword;
    he was furious with his inheritance.
63 Fire consumed their young men,
    and their young women had no wedding songs;
64 their priests were put to the sword,
    and their widows could not weep.

65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep,
    as a warrior wakes from the stupor of wine.
66 He beat back his enemies;
    he put them to everlasting shame.
67 Then he rejected the tents of Joseph,
    he did not choose the tribe of Ephraim;
68 but he chose the tribe of Judah,
    Mount Zion, which he loved.
69 He built his sanctuary like the heights,
    like the earth that he established forever.
70 He chose David his servant
    and took him from the sheep pens;
71 from tending the sheep he brought him
    to be the shepherd of his people Jacob,
    of Israel his inheritance.
72 And David shepherded them with integrity of heart;
    with skillful hands he led them. Psalm 78:56-72

What is behind God’s choosing a man?

A Question a Day From Rory #6

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So I have proven entirely incapable of answering a question a day in light of my scheduled activities and my unscheduled sickness. Nevertheless, I am determined to finish all 9 questions no matter how long it takes me.

Here is QUESTION #6 FROM A GUY CALLED A BLOKE.

Have you ever regretted something you did not say or do?

Who hasn’t? Life is full of regrets or full of amnesia. I am not sure which of those two conditions is worse.  I am grateful for my regrets because I like to think I have learned something from them and have become a better human being and child of God because of them. While I believe that all my failures are forgiven by Jesus (and hopefully by the people I have wronged). I also try to remember from whence I have come because I firmly believe that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it. Regrets, I guess, serve a purpose.

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Thursday Thoughts 4-10-19

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And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.- Paul the Apostle, Philippians 4