In an instant, the veneer dissolved and my existential reality and accompanying despair was exposed to my conscious waking mind. While I managed to keep my outward appearance normal, inside I was paralyzed in terror
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Whatever we owe to our European predecessors, we owe incalculably more to those they “owned”, upon whose backs our founding was physically accomplished.
Yeast is good. In Bread.
What is the yeast or leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees that Jesus says to beware of in Matthew 16? What puffs up a person the same way leaven puffs up a profiterole? What makes a person look, feel or act like something more than they are? Power? Pride? “Knowledge puffs up”, says Paul in 1 Corinthians 8, “but love builds up.” Beware of this leaven, this yeast, for those with true authority among you will be the friendly servants, not those who take positions over you or exercise power over you nor those who take the foremost seats and places of visible honor. Watch out for this in others in your community and refuse the temptation yourself. Build your life on loving relationships and don’t allow impersonal, top heavy institutions to develop and rob you of your strength and dignity. Be significant to each other and share your physical and supernatural gifts as God, our friend, our Father provides. Love, Dad, PaPa, Fred |
The DoorpostThe Doorpost is written for the family and friends of Fred / Papa / Dad Paddock in response to this admonition found in Deuteronomy 6:6-9: These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the door posts of your houses and on your gates and emails.
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