Soul Food: Week of November 28, 2021

“Soul Food” is a regularly updated calendar of meditations sometimes questioning conventional wisdom & often suggesting eternal values

Sunday: Acquitting the guilty and condemning the innocent, the Lord detests them both. Proverbs

Monday: I was never ruined but twice: Once when I lost a lawsuit and once when I won one. Voltaire

Tuesday: There are three levels of law: The Divine, The Natural & the Human. Mankind has always aspired to the first, feared the second & wallowed in the third.

Wednesday: I want uninterrupted health, Throughout my long career, And streams of never-failing wealth, To scatter far and near; The destitute to clothe and feed, Free bounty to bestow; Supply the helpless orphan’s need, And soothe the widow’s woe. John Quincy Adams

Thursday: Why should I wish to see God better than this day? I see something of God each hour of the twenty-four, and each moment then, In the faces of men and women I see God, and in my own face in the glass; I find letters from God dropped in the street, and every one is signed by God’s name, And I leave them where they are, for I know that others will punctually come forever and ever. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Friday: A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world … Your consciousness creates your universe. Ken Keyes, Jr.

Saturday: Is a “Good Christian” necessarily a “Renaissance Man”? Is it the other way around? Or, neither?

Davd Soul