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Inner Battle With Change
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“Change before you have to.” -Jack Welch
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty Battle: Your spirit wants change, but your soul wants things to stay the same. Why: Your soul wants to keep you somewhere familiar–even if it hurts you–just because it is known. It prefers the pa…
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An Aramaic Reading Of Genesis
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Studies In Genesis
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A wise man hears one word and understands two.
– Jewish Proverb
This is the first of a series of posts unraveling the complexities of the translation of Genesis. Starting with the very first words, a reading of Hebrew or Aramaic reveal that there is much more to the text than the English translation “In the beginning…” conveys…
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Why Noah Cursed Canaan
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Studies In Genesis
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In Genesis 9:25, Noah said “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
Through the years scholars have debated about why Noah cursed his grandson Canaan instead of Ham when Ham was the one who committed the offense. This post looks at Biblical and historical accounts, genealogies, and rabbinical viewpoints to gain a deeper understanding….
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Our Paint Garden
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Color At Hand
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After years of mixing paint to match the colors of nature, I learned I could use colors from nature to make paint. – Jordan
A post about our paint garden of pigment-yielding plants for making paint and ink, how it came to be, and what it means to Jordan…
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Reading Emotions
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There are different ways to read emotions. You can feel them or you can observe them.
Sometimes emotions are abiding and sometimes fleeting. Today’s prompt is to decipher what Meg Price’s dog is feeling. If you are a writer, explain it in words. If you are an artist, create a similar emotion in an image. Are you a musician? Create a simple melody th…
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Things Out Of Place
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Alignment and order are important. Alignment is your position; order is your queue.
I saw a red leaf today–an oddity in the first week of July. It was out of place, sitting beneath a conifer tree without a deciduous tree or plant anywhere around to account for its presence….
