Monthly Archives: June 2009

The Didache 13 – The Faces of the Saints

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. My child, remember night and day him who speaks the word of God to you, and honor him as you do the Lord. For wherever the lordly rule is uttered, there is the Lord. And seek out day by day the [...]
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Taste of Ethiopia

My wife, our law school son, and I headed to Taste of Ethiopia for lunch. None of us had had any prior experience with Ethiopian food, but the reviews were enticing. This restaurant is truly a dining jewel hidden away in a corner of a strip mall here in our own town of Pflugerville. If [...]
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The Didache 12 – Be Meek

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. Rather, be meek, since the meek shall inherit the earth. Be long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and gentle and good and always trembling at the words which you have heard. You shall not exalt yourself, nor give over-confidence to your soul. [...]
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The Didache 11 – Flee From Every Evil Thing

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. My child, flee from every evil thing, and from every likeness of it. Be not prone to anger, for anger leads to murder. Be neither jealous, nor quarrelsome, nor of hot temper, for out of all these murders are engendered. My [...]
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The First Year – Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free

One of the books I picked up on celiac (and by far the best so far) is a book by Jules E. Dowler Shepard, The First Year – Celiac Disease and Living Gluten-Free. Jules has celiac and shares her story in the book. In a guide intended for those who are newly diagnosed that’s a [...]
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The Didache 10 – The Second Commandment

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. And the second commandment of the Teaching; You shall not commit murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not commit pederasty, you shall not commit fornication, you shall not steal, you shall not practice magic, you shall not practice witchcraft, [...]
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The Didache 9 – Sweaty Alms

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. And also concerning this, it has been said, Let your alms sweat in your hands, until you know to whom you should give. Do you have the money for your alms identified? Does it “sweat” while you wait for the Spirit [...]
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The Didache 8 – Examined

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. Happy is he who gives according to the commandment, for he is guiltless. Woe to him who receives; for if one receives who has need, he is guiltless; but he who receives not having need shall pay the penalty, why he [...]
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And If I Don’t Heal?

I prefer the best and most accurate information I can obtain. At all levels and circles of my life I try to interact with reality as it is rather than as I desire it to be. That does not mean that my understanding of reality does not adapt or evolve. It is constantly doing both [...]
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The Didache 7 – Ask It Not Back

This series is reflecting on the Didache if you want to read it separately. If someone impresses you for one mile, go with him two. If someone takes your cloak, give him also your coat. If someone takes from you what is yours, ask it not back, for indeed you are not able. Give to [...]
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