Wednesday, August 7, 2019*

                           _Psalm 119:102_____________

I do 

not 

shrink 

from your  

judgements, 

                   

                    I knew right away that this was my verse. 

                        But I also knew that it is not true: I am 

                        afraid of your judgments. God chucked

                         &  I thought, Oh right - but only when

                          I don’t love you enough. No, one step

                                  further back - only when I forget 

                                             how much YOU love ME!   

                                                                         Oh right.

because you yourself have taught me. 

  * John Mason Neale 

      1818-1866 

 English priest & hypnotist 

(no Siri - hymnodist!) and

translator of hymns and 

prayers from the Latin &  

Greek.  There are six lines 

of shims -no Siri, hims, No -

hymns in our current hym-

nal, One of which is the lov-

ely “Christ is made the sure 

foundation."  If you don’t believe that we live in a post-Christian world 

try communicating with Siri! 

                           https://youtu.be/cR9NHXnbxlU

                   This is from an ecumenical service with 

                   the old Pope and the old Archbishop of 

              Canterbury, the latter singing in procession.

Neale also trans-

lated “Now That 

the Daylight Fills the Sky.” I can still hear the 

notes flying up 

into the rafters 

of the chapel as

the sisters sang the plainsong and the daylight began to in fact fill the sky.