Every man a Lamech?

1. Never in my wildest dreams could I, 40 years ago, have imagined today’s society. Is every other man a Lamech and every other woman a Jezebel?

2. Some attitudes are more basic than others, says a writer. Among the most basic: humility. Hear with it, speak with it, act with it, think with it.

3. Silence and stillness we need in the presence of God. Then, he would have us move and speak.

4. Wikipedia’s “On this day”: “1969 – The children’s television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.” 50 years ago today? Time flies.

5. Difficulty getting a pool today for a baptism. A downside to meeting in a home.

6. An original verse: Between this world and next, how thin the wall! / How high the holy God after the Fall!

7. A Bible verse: “In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions” Lk 14.33.