Egregious Reader

I am the LORD your God from the land of Egypt; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior. It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought; but when they had grazed, they became full, they were filled, and their heart was lifted up; therefore they forgot me. Return, O Israel, to the LORD your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity. Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "we will say no more, 'Our God,' to the work of our hands. In you the orphan finds mercy." O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress

August 24, 1961 Is it a new country In another world of reality... I awoke To an ordinary morning with gray light Reflected from the street, But still remembered The dark-blue night Above the tree line, The open moor in moonlight, The crest in shadow. Remembered other dreams Of the same mountain country: Twice I stood on its summits, I stayed by its remotest lake, And followed the river Toward its source. The seasons have changed And the light And the weather And the hour. But it is the same land. And I begin to know the map And to get my bearings. Dag Hammarskjöld, the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations. He died in a plane crash in September of 1961 en route to negotiate a cease-fire. He and fifteen others perished. This is the last entry from his diary that was published after his death. (I like this because I feel myself lost in a new country and hope to get my bearings soon ... and that I know the map.--jason)

I started weekly door quotes on my office door. Just gives me a chance to value one quote from my weekly readings and share it with others. So, I thought I would post it here as well ... this is the quote of the week. (Two this week ... they are connected). "Not only is recreational sex no fun, but consumer sex is profoundly anti-social. The sexual revolution has retarded people's ability to create community life and to relate to one another. Even worse, our modern sexual moral code does not cultivate an attitude of respect for others, in spite of our elaborate schemes of equality and our hypersensitive habits of speech. To the contrary, our modern sexual ways have led us to believe that we are entitled to use people." Jennifer Roback Morse from "Smart Sex: Finding Life-Long Love in a Hook-Up World" We have to ask ourselves where this idea of sexual liberation is really leading us. Its perhaps very clever of us to look down on those poor suppress...

"Yes, we are much less naked in the face of dread diseases but still ultimately naked in the end." --- Eric Cohen thoughts on his book Shadow of Progress: Being Human in the Age of Technology He laughed a little after he said it ... I think he was actually referring to nuclear weapons and the nearness of even greater forms of death ... but couldn't help but think about our lack of modesty as well.