Category: Daily Post
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This week I’ve been trying to actually read Scripture instead of just skimming it for a verse that fits what I already wanted to hear. And I ran into the same wall I always run into. I can read the words fine. Understanding what I’m reading is a different thing entirely. Genesis feels far from…
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For a long time I thought the Bible wasn’t really for me. It felt like something for priests, or scholars, or people who’d grown up with a rosary in one hand and a catechism in the other. I figured I’d just pick up whatever I caught at Mass on Sunday and call that enough. That’s…
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Here’s what I did this morning, and what I want to do again today. I opened my Bible to one line, not a whole chapter, just one line, and sat with it. Psalm 119 says God’s word is a lamp for the feet, not a floodlight for the whole field. Just enough light to see…
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I read something this week from Saint Jerome that I have not been able to shake. He wrote, “Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ.” Not indifference to Scripture. Not a mild handicap. Ignorance of Christ himself. That reoriented something in me. I used to treat my Bible reading like a task on a list,…
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I’ve been sitting with a line from Paul this week, from his first letter to the Corinthians. He’s writing to a church that’s split into factions, arguing over who baptized them, who they follow, whose teaching is best. And in the middle of all that noise, he says something almost matter of fact: “no one…
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I keep coming back to that parable in Matthew 7, the wise man who builds his house on rock, and the fool who builds his on sand. Same storm hits them both. Same rain, same wind. Only one house is still standing when it’s over. For a long time I thought that story was about…
