Called:: Meiyan walked like a stranger for an amount of time that is of little consequence. When one is a stranger in a strange place, and begins to feel the homelessness of an unrevealed purpose, time seems to bend, or stretch, or stop. He rarely paused to consider...
Being in a City:: I saw this young man on his way. We can call him Meiyan. He was, for all his reading, and for all his knowledge, roaming aimlessly through the city plazas and streets, finding no place to sit, no place to rest. This grand city was a product of many...
A Beginning:: He saw it written clearly there, among the words that he had seen so often swimming before him, and knew so well. Get up and go. This he had heard many times as well—spoken to the languishing and the failing, as well as the wealthy and adventurous. The...
Psalm 34 Psalm 34 is an acrostic poem, where each line of the Hebrew poem begins with a consecutive letter of the Hebrew aleph-bet. How I Lost My Shadow This psalm is many stories simultaneously. It is David’s story, and the story of his relationship to his...
ALEPH (Ox, Beginning, Power/Authority/Strength, 3-in-1 nature of the God-Man) The Lord has commanded diligence. His word is able to bless us and keep us from shame, even as we are wholly enraptured by it. BETH (Family, House of God) The Lord is blessed. His word...
Psalm 119 It has no title, but it is “The Longest Psalm.” Some attribute it to David, and Spurgeon calls it a “royal diary” written at various times through his long life. This psalm is 176 verses divided into 22 stanzas, each stanza beginning with a consecutive...
