Sunday, September 21, 2008

loose tongue, tight ears

Esther 3:1-4:3
Psalms 93, 96
James 1:19-27
Matthew 1:1-6, 16-18


James 1:19-27

quick to listen, slow to speak

How I wish I could remember this when my tongue is loose and my ears are tight.

Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
What else really counts? Yes my own spirituality is important to me but what relevance can it have to my neighbor's eternal life, or even the life of the person who lost their livelihood in the hurricane?


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