Letting the scriptures speak for me.

Sometimes, I feel like Moses – my words fail me. My tongue is twisted, the words come only after I needed them. Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

For this reason, I think there is much value in reading scripture, learning scripture, and memorizing some key phrases that are important to you. If there is one thing I really admire about our Christian bretheren, it is how they make scripture reading and memorization a key part of their daily routines, and how the Christian homescholers in particualr find memorization to be of great importance to their children.

One of my favorite parts of the bible, is the Gospel of Matthew. It just speaks to me, sings to my soul. And although my mind (which was NOT trained in memorization techniques) can’t come up with chapter and verse quickly, I am at least familiar enough now with the book, (and my highlighted version) to find the information I need quickly.

This weekend I used that information in a debate when it was pretty clear that my own words just weren’t going to cut it. Sometimes in these blog and debate board discussions you have to realize you’ve sown the seeds, and leave it up to God to see how many will sprout.

It was good to see Dawn Eden using the same approach, this time with regard to the anti-Terri crowd. Thanks Alicia for the heads up on this one.

One of my detractors brought up the famous verses from 1 Corinthians on love. (Although interestingly that translation substituted charity for love – which I don’t think works as well.) It was a eureka moment as I came up on this particular verse in the chapter.

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

It would be a true tragedy to come out of this episode of American History to have lost hope, to believe that the country is lost, that there’s no point in trying. And maybe that’s the hand of God in all of this. Maybe this is the absolute bottom and from here we rebound. I have to hope that. We have to endure this to get to that. Maybe it also means putting up with the ingnorance of these twitty- somethings, remembering that at one time I was a twitty-something too, and despite myself, a seed sprouted. Maybe unwittingly that’s the message I was supposed to get from that person – “endure all things now, bear all things now and believe and hope it will make a difference.”

Said detractor also, I believe, misapplies Matthew 22:15-22. These are the verses about giving to Cesar what is Cesars. Here is the misapplication. Terri does not belong to Cesar but to God. It is God’s gift of life to her that Cesar, in a sense is taking away. And justice is mine sayeth the Lord.

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