Dear Gentle Reader,
From time to time I take a wee break from writing. Not that anything is particularly wrong. Or that there is some emergency, we are not dying of anything other that what kills us all. that is to say we wear out ! But those of you that read on a regular basis know that thinking is a difficult business, not only that but to be reflective in a world that spends its time on sound bites or being amused by "girls gone wild" or soap operas like "As the stomach turns" they won't miss my small attempt to get one to think as a intelligent person. Those who need to think, perhaps, need to consider this.
The Talmud tells that a gentile came to Shammai saying that he would convert to Judaism if Shammai could teach him the whole Torah in the time that he could stand on one foot. Shammai drove him away with a builder's measuring stick! Hillel, on the other hand, converted the gentile by telling him, "That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary. Go and study it." So may I take that quote and change it a wee bit to this "
"Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." (Matt. 22:36-39) That is the whole of Christianity, the rest is commentary.
So for a brief pause Gentle reader, if you need me read some of the 1500 + articles that I have left with you to reflect upon while I recharge my spiritual battery and if you hear of me advising the President on matters of state, it';s just a rumor started by the people who would like to start rumors.
See you a a while Gentle reader, and remember you are accepted, you are valued, you are loved, by God and by me.
Denis
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