Lord, you have searched me out and known me be
kanow my sitting down and my rising up;
you discern my thoughts from afar.
2 You trace my journeys and my resting-places
and are acquainted with all my ways.
TAIZé – IN OUR DARKNESS LYRICS(http://www.songlyrics.com/taiz/in-our-darkness-lyrics/)
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and are acquainted with all my ways.
Fsalm 139 can be read as negative: “There’s no getting away from God.” or as a positive: “God can never lose me.” The New Testament supports the positive reading. Luke 15 offers 3 parables.
- The lost sheep.
- The lost coin.
- The lost (prodigal) child. CNN
TAIZé – IN OUR DARKNESS LYRICS(http://www.songlyrics.com/taiz/in-our-darkness-lyrics/)
7 Praise the Lord from the earth,
you sea-monsters and all deeps;
8 Fire and hail, snow and fog,
tempestuous wind, doing his will;
The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom,
and their tongue speaks what is right.
The law of their God is in their heart,
and their footsteps shall not falter.
Psalm 37:32-33
I like the idea that the righteous’s footsteps are firm and strong. I often worry about my own physical stability when I am walking. Earlier today I went down four steps and one knee felt weak. I always say I am taking Pilates to avoid a walker later on.
Here, in this wisdom psalm, the writer
is probably not thinking about actual walking, but the assurance those who follow Jesus have as they go through life. It isn’t that I am always right. My confidence resides in Jesus and I can trust him to show me the way I should live as one of his followers.
I started breaking my draft of my novel apart into scenes. The divisions are not as clean as I would like them. I did find a chapter with two scenes in it and a big mess near the beginning which is where the narrative needs a lot of work. It is fairly tedious so I only went through about a third of the chapter headings. More work tomorrow.
When using a braille display with VoiceOver on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, your braille display may support the following commands to help with navigation.
To ensure that your braille display is using the correct table, make sure that you have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. If you want to customize your braille commands on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, follow these steps:
Go to Settings > Accessibility > VoiceOver > Braille > connected braille display name > More Info > Braille Commands.
Navigation
VoiceOver action Display key
Move to previous item Dot 1 + Space bar
Move to next item Dot 4 + Space bar
Go to first item Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Space bar
Go to last item Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Item chooser Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Space Bar
Go to Status bar Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Space bar
Go to Notification Center Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Go to Control Center Dot 2 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Escape current context Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Space bar
Move to Left Split View App (iPad only) Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Move to Right Split View App (iPad only) Dot 2 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Move to previous container (iPad only) Dot 1 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Move to next container (iPad only) Dot 4 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Scrolling
VoiceOver action Display key
Scroll left one page Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Scroll right one page Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Scroll up one page Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Scroll down one page Dot 1 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Speak page number or rows being displayed Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Space bar
Rotor
VoiceOver action Display key
Move to previous item using rotor setting Dot 3 + Space bar
Move to next item using rotor setting Dot 6 + Space bar
Select previous rotor setting Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Space bar
Select next rotor setting Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Interaction
VoiceOver action Display key
Perform simple tap Dot 3 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Activates the Home button Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Activates the Volume Up button Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Activates the Volume Down button Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Show/Hide the keyboard Dot 1 + Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
3D Touch on selected item Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Reading
VoiceOver action Display key
Read page starting at selected item Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Read page starting at the top Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Editing
VoiceOver action Display key
Select all Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Select left Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Select right Dot 2 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Tab Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Shift Tab Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Cut Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Copy Dot 1 + Dot 4 + Space bar
Paste Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Activates the Delete key Space bar or Dot 1 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Activates the Return key Space bar or Dot 1 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Undo Typing Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Redo Typing Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Text search Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Space bar
Output text style Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Start dictation when in text field Dot 1 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Control
VoiceOver action Display key
Toggle Screen Curtain on and off Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Pause or continue speech Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Space bar
Toggle speech on or off Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Space bar
App Switcher Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 5 + Space bar (twice)
Help Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Space bar
Change an item’s label Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Toggle QuickNav Dot 1+ Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Play/Pause Music Dot 1 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Braille
VoiceOver action Dislay key
Pan braille to the left Dot 2 + Space bar
Pan braille to the right Dot 5 + Space bar
Toggle announcement history Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Translate Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Next output mode Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Next input mode Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 6 + Space bar
Switch between contracted and uncontracted braille Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Space bar
Input and output mode correspond to 6-dot, 6-dot contracted, and 8-dot braille models.
8-dot
VoiceOver action Display key
Previous container Dot 1 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Next container Dot 4 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Delete Dot 7 + Space bar
Return Dot 8 + Space bar
Toggle mute Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Start help Dot 1 + Dot 3 + Dot 7 + Space bar
Scroll up page Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Dot 8 + Space bar
Scroll down page Dot 1 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 6 + Dot 8 + Space bar
Simulated long press Dot 3 + Dot 6 + Dot 7 + Dot 8 + Space bar
Single letter quick nav Dot 1 + Dot 2 + Dot 3 + Dot 4 + Dot 5 + Dot 7 + Space bar
He has established peace on your borders;
Psalm 147:15a
I hadn’t realized how focused the psalms I have been reading lately are on national concerns. Nor had I thought much about living with insecure borders despite all the attention on our border with Mexico. Thinking about warfare and sovereign borders of late changes this. It is good to give thanks for personal security. I have not given thanks for my own safety much which says I don’t encounter danger hardly at all and I give thanks for that.
The Lord has heard my supplication;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
Psalm 6:9
In the end, this is all I can ask for.
Psalm 119:1-24
No particular quotation today.
Psalm 119 is an acrostic, that is, it is an alphabetical piece. Each stanza consists of all lines beginning with the same letter. Acrostics denotes completeness.
Psalm 119 talks a great deal about the law, decrees, commands and statutes. It can get quite tedious and each line does not really connect with the next. But if you think about it always having to begin each line with a particular character, it makes sense there is a stilted quality to it.
Thinking about the psalm’s focus on the law today reminded me that Torah, law, can also be translated teaching or revelation. I am coming to think of the psalm as less legalistic and more about gettingaligned with God’s way of thinking and doing. If I take it one step further and say getting behind Jesus’ commandments, there really is only one: Love the Lord you’re God. Jesus follows this up with love your neighbor as yourself. If the double love commandment is the “law” to meditate on, Psalm 119 becomes far more palatable.
I will call upon the Lord,
and so shall I be saved from my enemies.
Psalm 18:3
The imagery in this psalm is ancient and other worldly. Perhaps this is a volcanic eruption and a thunderstorm with God clothed in fire. It reminds me of the tragic eruption in New Zealand last month.
Looking at this verse, a song lyric came to mind but I had no idea which song. It turns out to be “The Lord Liveth.” I had to work through “Shout to the Lord” and “Ten Thousand Reasons” (both good songs) before I found the right one.
My footsteps hold fast to the ways of your law;
in your paths my feet shall not stumble.
Psalm 17:5
The way of Jesus continues. It is not so much that I can accomplish this on my own but that Jesus strengthens me in my walk of faith.
Be joyful in God, all you lands;
sing the glory of his Name;
sing the glory of his praise.
Psalm 66:1
The thought of everyone singing together in praise of God delights me.2
Hallelujah!
Praise God in his holy temple;
praise him in the firmament of his power.
Praise him for his mighty acts;
praise him for his excellent greatness.
Praise him with the blast of the ram’s-horn;
Praise him with lyre and harp.
Praise him with timbrel and dance;
praise him with strings and pipe.
Praise him with resounding cymbals;
praise him with loud-clanging cymbals.
Let everything that has breath
praise the Lord.
Hallelujah!
I have always imagined this as a great orchestral with chorus event and a conductor gesturing to each group in turn—up to the balconies for the heavens and to the people for all living things and, oh, the cymbals!
In the name of Jesus. AMen.
In preparing for today I read the first chapter of Rowen Wiliiams’ book Being Christian on Baptism. Williams describes an icon of Jesus standing up to his neck in the water of the Jordan River. At his feet are the river gods representing chaos. The waters of chaos, Genesis tells us, were at the beginning. I thought about the year Camp Marcella, New Jersey’s camp for blind children, decided to get rid of the algy in the lake where we swam twice a day. It was much nicer not to run into a clump of slimy algy, but the fish nipped at your heels if you stood on the bottom of the lake. They were hungry. When I became an advanced swimmer, I could go into an area where the bottom of the lake was not covered with sand and stone. It was soft and did not support my weight. We called it the gunge.
A more serious form of worldly chaos was the situation in Isaiah’s time. The areas of Zebulon and Naftali, far away from Jerusalem in northern Israel were being invaded by the Assyrians from Neveveh, modern day Mosel in Iraq. They came into the territory via the Domascus Road. ILsaiah calls this a land of darkness and gloom which is understandable given its struggle with warfare, opression and final defeat. But there is a moment of victory in this decline, a light that comes upon the land.
Matthew remembers this prophecy and says, with the coming of Jesus, this light now shines on the land. darkness and gloom of Chaos has been beaten back.
Now if you are not all that familiar with Jesus’ story, you might think that after his Baptism in the Jordan—a filthy smelly experience I understand at today’s Jordan River and maybe not that wonderful long ago. Naaman complains in Elisha’s time some 2800 years ago about how unmajestic the Jrodan is—you might think Jesus just came up out of the Jordan and, moved back to Nazareth and then set up shop in Capernaum. But, in a few weeks, you will hear how he spent time in the wilderness and was tested by hunger, the allure of temporal power and irrespnsibility.
Coming out of his own encounter with darkness and goom and the chaos of evil itself, Jesus invites everyone to turn themselves around and follow him.
I read this webpage today. Holy Name Without a doubt, the hearer of these texts are to concentrate on the name of Jesus and of all the ways we might engage God’s name. But being a more perverse person, that is not where my mind went. In Philippians,Paul says “Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.” (2:5).
What does this mean? I have read these words many times and have often wondered but never stopped to think about them separately. Yes. Yes. Every knee should bow and all that, but what would it mean to have the same mind as Jesus?
The point is Jesus’ servanthood, Jesus’ willingness to do God’s will, to be God with us rather than God apart from us.
And so I begin the year thinking I might have a goal this year to come back to these readings and be Christ to those I meet. It’s been a Christian practice forever, but I forget it all the time.
People get nervous around other people when they start spouting religion or say things like, “Jesus loves you.” I am not that sort of person. But I can channel it and act as if I had said it.
I want to be mindful of having the mind of Jesus this year. Who knows. It might even become habitual. And isn’t that the point of resolutions anyway?)
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There is so much happening it is hard to know what to do:
- There is a strong probability I will get a letter in the next two weeks telling me a apartment is available for me at Lincoln Court.
A. What paperwork is needed?
B. How soon will I be able to move?
C. What if I receive my inheritance?
D. What is the apartment like?
E. I have to pack.
- I need to go back and work through the pier amid lecture and copy down the pier amid. It seems as if the pier amid would be a way of thinking about editing. The first draft would be the bottom row of the pyramid. Just get the story down. After that, I can go back and add all of the fancy stuff and coloring and all of that.
I have a baseball game this afternoon. - I need to check out Highway writer to see if it does many of the things you Leisy stars. No sense getting into a subscription if it is unnecessary.
- this ordered list, actually it’s not ordered list, is very interesting.
now I am back to a regular paragraph.
The bigges problem of editing in iOS is the fact that VoiceOver doesn’t focus so much on where you are but starts at the beginning of your edit area. I wonder if typing mode takes care of this. Let’s see.
Pyramid of Writing
The Fancy Stuff
Metaphors
Subtext
Voice, Mood
Senses Evoked
Meaning, Sense and Clarity
I had never seen an elderly Tigerfu before. The alien’s hair wasn’t just white all over the way it was inCUB PICTUREcub picture books. It was so thin and almost dirty-looking as if all the newness of it was gone. I could see through it to his skin. It was supposed to be a dark blue, but even his skin was faded into a sickly gray. Most surprising, the elderly Tigerfu was wearing a cloak of some kind. I realized that without a full compliment of hair, the cloak must keep him warm.
I read this webpage today. http://lectionarypage.net/YearABC_RCL/Christmas/HolyName_RCL.htmlthe Holy Name Without a doubt, the hearer of these texts are tao concentrate on the name of Jesus and of all the ways we might engage God’s name. But bearing a more perverse person, that is not where my mind went. Philippians, parta
15 Turn to me and have pity on me, *
for I am left alone and in misery.
16 The sorrows of my heart have increased; *
bring me out of my troubles.
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be not far from me, O my God.
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