His activities are so well integrated that listed among his forthcoming readings is an appearance at the Connecticut Funeral Directors Association annual convention. The author may have some of the answers to your questions a chapter or two later.T homas Lynch (born in 1948) is an unusual poet in that he has been able to unite theory and practice: not only does he write the elegies, but he is the local undertaker in his home town of Milford, Michigan. How does this Scripture speak to me in the context of my life? In some chapters where the context is heavily doctrinal, you may have difficulty making direct application right away. Another way to think of this stage is application. This is a place to take the truth learned and put it into a real-life situation. Often this is where insight for interpretation comes. This image is helpful to the hurried mind unfamiliar with the process of meditation on important truth because it suggests that it isn't something done quickly but requires the time to fully digest it and make it ready for full absorption of the beneficial content. Most cows have three stomachs with different aids for digestion in each. This is where I employ the image of the ruminant animal (a cow) chewing her cud and swallowing it only to bring it up (regurgitate) and chew on it again. It will be the basis for your time of reflection and could also lead you into prayer for interpretation and understanding. I suggest you write it on a 3x 5 card or put it in your phone with a mind to refer to it during the week and "hide it in your heart" and/or memorize it. Here I will select a verse which is key to understanding the chapter. You may think of this exercise as writing the "elevator version" of a sales pitch or drawing a picture or even making a collage by writing words which express your impressions or questions raised by a second reading of the text. Rhyme and meter work to imprint the truth discovered in my memory. In order to capture the message of the chapter in a place for recall, I usually write a short summary of the chapter in the form of a poem. I will share my thoughts gleaned from that same exercise. Take this day to read and absorb the text along with a prayer for God to open your eyes and ears to the truth he has for you. Read through the chapter for the week with an eye for the answers to the questions "Who, what, when, where, why and how?" This is a time for observation and to record your first impressions of what you see. What follows is a brief overview of each of the five parts which are divided into one for every day of the week. This is a 5- part look at each chapter of the book using the 5"R's". That being the ultimate price for jailbait to pay on his own-the only price he is able to scrounge up is his own death for payment-and that amounts to nothing-nothing that changes anything in the grand scheme of things.Īs we walk this road together, we will be using the same format used in the study of the book of Galatians. Walking papers that deliver one from the jail sentence which will (if it's not rescinded or somehow justice to the individual is rendered completely outside of himself) be commuted in hell. But to hell which once you're there you can never leave. Not just to jail-you can get out of jail. A "get out of jail free" card that will be right there where you can reach it any time you need it-which of course after you use it once, you will never have to worry about going to jail again.Īnd if you try to play the "go to jail" card on yourself or anyone else, you'll have the apostle Paul's strong word "anathema" -literally telling the perpetrator to take that lie and go to hell. If the Monopoly Board speaks of your life, you will need what Galatians has to offer-a free pass to a New Life. The book of Galatians - I call it "Walking Papers".
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