Monday The First Day of April, 2019*

                                         _________Jeremiah 16:12/Psalm 89:14_

   

      

      Here 

      you 

      are, 

      every

      one 

      of you, 

      following 

      your own 

      stubborn 

      evil will, 

      refusing to listen…    

             

             Righteousness & justice are the foundation 

     of your throne; love & truth go before your face.

*Frederick D. Maurice 

      1805-1872 

 English priest, founded 

the Christian Socialist 

Movement, which com-

mitted Christians “at once 

to the conflict we must 

engage in sooner or later 

with the unsocial Christians 

and unchristian Socialists.”  In the same year that Karl Marx wrote that religion was “the opiate of the people”, Maurice, who saw worship worship as the meeting point of time and eternity, wrote ”We have been dosing our people with religion when what they want is the living God.’

                             *

                                                        I 

                                                thought 

                                          my verse was 

                                      the “foundations”  

                                   But I got "wait" and

                                read on. When I got to

                          Jeremiah that was it.  But I 

                      was unsure what to do do until I  

                 found this terrific picture of Jeremiah

             with his head in his hands. And poor God 

       is so often like that with us, shaking his head. 

    I didn’t realize until right now that the “founda-

tions” in this are the two pillars! Doing this is so fun!