glorycloud's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- good news for modern man It is 10:03 AM Thursday morning. It is snowing raining ice this morning. Carol got home from work the usual time. When she got home from work I was sitting at the dining room table drinking coffee with nothing to do but stare off into nothingness. Last night I looked at website on a Christian commune I stayed off and on many years ago in Northern California called Living Waters Ranch. http://goalumni.homestead.com/Living_Waters.html I have been trying to remember what year it was when I stayed at this Christian commune. I stayed there twice. I think it was in the late 70's or maybe the middle 70's. I wish I had my diaries from those years in my possession. I think I was at Living Waters Ranch around 1972 or 1973? I just don't remember right now. I need to write out a time line of my life sometime to find out where I have been these last 57 years. I have been carrying around to read this morning "Theology Of The New Testament" by Udo Schnelle. I also got out a book that I should mention when discussing Christian Prayer. This book I bought from a used bookstore in England when I was a divinity student at Reformed Theological Seminary. The book is titled "Holy Wisdom Or Directions for the Prayer of Contemplation Extracted out of more than Forty Treatises" by Ven. Father F. Augustin Baker A Monk Of The English Congregation Of The Holy Order Of S. Benedict. I also should mention these books on the Christian life since there is nothing else to do right now. I have many books on Prayer, Contemplation and the Spiritual Life because my desire in this short life was to be a Soul Doctor. Instead I am a bum. I cling to the Cross of Christ. I have a book coming in the mail this month on Lectio Divina. I practice lectio divina when I am reading one of my many Bibles (I looked at last night a small New Testament I got when I was living at the Living Waters Ranch "Good News for Modern Man" The New Testament Today's English Version. I looked at this New Testament to see if there was a date written inside. No date was inscribed inside this small cheap made NT. For years I collected many versions and translations of the Bible. Now I mainly read from the New King James translation or the New International version the NIV. I have two old Bibles given to me by my Grandfather back in the early 60's. I remember reading these Bibles when I was a boy. I grew up among people who lived for the devil and not the Lord Jesus. It is a blessing to have had parents who read the Bible to you when you were growing up. We need holy wisdom so as to live in this insane world in a sane manner. We need the power of the Holy Spirit to walk in the way of the Lord. So here I sit down in the basement writing out my thoughts. It is now 10:27 AM Thursday morning. Well I suppose I will close to wander my cell. music: Slowdive "Souvlaki" 10:30 a.m. - 2009-12-03 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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