THE BEGINNING OF THE END

Lots of clouds this morning and it feels cold. Dad and I are off to get cortizone shots in his knees. This will make them more painful and we aare hopeful they will help. His cold is finally better so time does heal some things!


Storm Clouds are forming as darkness enters the thoughts and minds and the very souls of the pharisees and the sadducees; the priests and teachers of the law. Jesus had known what was in their hearts from the beginning; so he was not surprised that as he rode the donkey into Jerusalem he again upset the Pharisees. The crowds had love him and flocked to hear him because he taught like one with authority and not as their teachers of the law. Matthew 7:28 He taught by telling stories which stay with us more than lectures etc.

Jesus returned to his home town and read the scripture that he had come to bring to life claiming to be fulfilling prophecy and so shocking his hearers,and in their outraged they had evicted him from his synagogue in his home town. Their anger so great they tried to throw him down a cliff. Luke 4:16.

It is so easy to get wrong ideas in our heads and taken to a great extreme this can lead to paranoia. The teachers of the law, the pharisees, were not in tune with the message of Jesus and felt threatened by his teachings. Jesus said that no matter what tune he played, they would respond like children unwilling to join in;
whether it was a mournful song or a wedding dance they criticized him. This is in Matthew 11:7.

Jesus tried to prepare his disciples that he would have to suffer and die but they may have thought this was just another parable and they did not understand it. Jesus had entered Jerusalem as a king and he had over-turned the tables in the temple, where they were selling the sacrifices and making a profit by cheating people. It had become a place of commerce instead of a house of prayer where all were welcome.

Jesus was warning they would have to let go of the outward show that is religion and see their need of a relationship based on trust not on who is right or wrong. The Universe sings a song for us to sing along with and Jesus continually said let them with ears hear. If we are always busy and preoccupied we are deaf to the magic and the rythem.


I got these ideas from my book of the Aramaic equivalant of English words
such as evil which means out of rhythem or not ready.
Then the word for sin: error, failure, frustrated hopes, what misses the mark, figurately tnagled threads. [I think a discord is a good word meaning to miss the beat or the note.] I think we all at times catch a sound and respond in side our souls.

I just discovered that I was not using the spell checker right and it did not automatically change the spelling but that I would have to retype it. This is a sour note to end on.