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Thursday, September 28, 2006
Memory-al Passage
For the past few weeks, Amara and I have been memorizing a passage in the Bible together. We decided to start with Ephesians 1:3-14, since it's a beautiful description of the gospel shared by Paul in the opening of his letter to the church at Ephesus. Here it is typed out (from memory, of course):
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For He chose us in Him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. In love, He predestined us to be adopted as His sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with His pleasure and will, to the praise of His glorious grace, which He has freely given us in the one He loves. In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace, which He lavished on us with all wisdom and understanding. And He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Christ, to be put into effect when the times will have reached their fulfillment, to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ. In Him, we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will, in order that we, who were the first to hope in Christ, might be for the praise of His glory. And you also were included in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. Having believed, you were marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit, who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance until the redemption of those who are God's possession. To the praise of His glory! We haven't picked out our next memory passage, but it will likely be something to perseverate on (I'm in my psychiatry rotation now, and we use special terms to talk about the thought processes of patients. Here are some examples: "Linear" means the thought process flows logically from one topic to another. "Tangential" is almost the opposite of linear, where thoughts do not seem to be connected and associations are made quite loosely. "Circumstantial" describes thinking that seems to go all over the place but eventually settles in on the topic at hand. "Ruminate" is similar to the digestion in cows, where a particular thought gets mulled over and over again slowly, but the cycle does finally end and the topic is passed. "Perseverate" is similar to ruminate, however, the thinking never moves beyond a particular idea or topic. Most of the times, perseverating on something isn't a good idea. But if it's something from the Word of God, I think a great deal of good can come out of it. [By the way, if you hadn't noticed, this whole parenthetical portion with a description of psychiatry terms is rather tangential.]) Any suggestions?
12:25 AM Albert
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