GCR Women

Like most people, I receive a lot of emails - some I've subscribed to and some that come from who knows where.  One regular email I get is from First Fruits of Zion.  It contains many interesting articles and links that I have followed to gain some very thoughtful and often unusual insights. Today, I got one of those emails.  This one detailed Israel's king's duty to write the Law out by hand himself on a scroll.  This practice would ensure that he was acquainted with the Law.  But he was also required to keep it ever before him, so he would be reminded that even though he was king, he was not above the Law. Even Jesus said he had not come to do away with the Law and the Prophets but to fulfill them.  He knew the Law and lived by the Law and did not consider himself to be above the Law.  Are we above the Law?  I don't think so.  We are, in fact, called to a higher standard today than the Pharisees who lived in the time of Jesus.  ...

Recently, I said some things that had unforseen consequences.  If I'd known the mischief my words would bring, I'd never have released them.   My good intentions only caused pain.  Does anyone think that is really what I wanted?  How sad and terrible to be misunderstood!  I certainly didn't see this coming.  Oh, to be able to retract those words! Next came the pain.  I was hurt.  Others were hurt.  It felt like the hurting would never stop.  How many tears could I cry?  Oh, the night seemed so long!  I understood how Juliet felt when she spoke these words in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , Act 4, Scene 1:         "O shut the door, and when thou hast done so,           Come weep with me, past hope, past cure, past help!" Would things get better?  Some hurts change everything.  Pain teaches a powerful lesson and once learned, the mistake isn't likely to be repeated -...