qohelet.

got a few things...

first have a look at this blog entry titled 'one cup, one life' - pretty special.

second, this week I've briefly started to look at the book of Qohelet (aka Ecclesiastes). The book in itself is confusing - however I've only briefly looked at it... So far this theme has stood out to me:

...And I set my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I realised this is also striving after the wind. Because in much wisdom there is much grief and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain. (Ecc 1:17-18)

Knowing stuff is hard!

One of mt collegues who's currently in seminary today said that where he comes from there are many broken and bending roads, and you can tell who the drunk drivers are because they drive in a straight line down the roads, whereas the sober drivers follow the broken path.

It was an interesting observation. Can that be applied as a metaphor to life?

fun.

Would more people take the stairs if they were more fun?



nh

truth's?

What are the big truth's in life? and who decides them?

It is often said that we should focus on the big truths that unite us - a statement that I fully endorse, however it becomes problematic when there are disagreements about what those truths are. Something may be a clear big truth to one, yet a small truth to another.

Just a thought...

nh

barak.

Studying the book of Job at the moment.

The word ‘curse’ or ‘cursed’ appears 4 times in the prologue to the book (Chap 1&2).

The Hebrew word used in theses instances is barak which actually means bless.

I wonder what the author was attempting to say.

What is blessing? What is cursing?

“Do you still hold fast to your integrity, curse (or bless) God and die!” - Job’s wife

To be ‘blessed’ are we really cursed? and to be ‘cursed’ are we really blessed?

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall laugh.
Blessed are you when men hate you, and ostracize you, and insult you, and scorn your name as evil, for the sake of the Son of Man.

...But woe to you who are rich, for you shall be hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep.
Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for their fathers used to treat the false prophets in the same way.
Luke 6:21-22, 24-26