Morningside Devotionals

We've been looking at judging this week, we might even take it a bit further and deeper next week, but for today I want to take a little break away from the deep and dark woods for today. We've been to the parted path, seen the majestic snow with absolutely no prints in it, blown across ground that shows nothing beneath the clear, crisp, delightfully pure white. We've been into the depths a little about what judging is, and is not; and the personal aspect of it, and that gets deep so today I thought we'd just lighten up a bit, if that's O.K. with you? Somebody told me one time that the way that sound travels is in waves, and at about 186,000 feet per minute, light multiplies that to 186,000 miles per second; but that distance traveled at that given rate for one year is then called a light year. Here is the mind bending part of that, it isn't a measure of time but of distance. So when we say that the universe that we detect light from is 473 million light years ...

One of my favorite authors, who should be, our favorite author; is Robert B. Parker, who wrote the famous Spenser for Hire series, which many years back starred Robert Urich, who we lost to cancer, sometime back; sadly- and Spenser for Hire was a great T.V. show, Robert B. Parker is a fantastic author. Introduced this very important "Morningside" to you that way, because I want to use a quote from Mr. Parker's work, it says what we are about so clearly: "I can't stand watching you pulled apart like this. You love two things, ...,and you have to hurt one to help the other." ("Mortal Stakes"-pg. 251) Is that, judging? NIV - Luk 16:13 - “No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.” Right now, you are judging me; and at the same time, you are being judged- and putting yourself into a position of being judged- write...