Unlike “Navin R. Johnson”, Steve Martin’s moronic characterization in the 1979 comedy film “The Jerk” , I was not born a “poor black child”. I arrived in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on the 18th of October in 1946 - the firstborn of European immigrant offspring. My father’s parents were Irish and my mother’s parents were Sicilian. Although I was born in New England and could characterize myself as “a Yankee”, the Lion’s share of my cultural identity rests in background of the people who had a hand in raising me. What I know about the warmth and affection among extended family members, I learned from my mother’s Sicilian people. My incisive wit is… brought to you by the makers of …my father’s Irish people.
Read More1. Awake…..Awake O “Zion” (“a Community of Israelites who’ve spent 40+ years of their mortal lives in a personal desert (wilderness) searching for “Living-Water”) Clothe your selves in “vehemence” (zeal; ardor; violence; force; passion). *************** O Jerusalem… thou “City of Holiness”. Put on (array yourselves in; slip-into; throw-on) your garment of splendor (glory; radiance; grandeur; magnificence; brilliance). […]
“Everlasting Salvation For Zion” 1. Listen to Me (Jehovah), those of you who pursue (work-toward; aspire-to) righteousness and seek the Lord. Look-to (set your hope and confidence in) the bedrock (foundation; substratum) from which you were hewn (cut) and the stone-quarry from which you originated. . . . . . 2. Look to Abraham, the eponymous-ancestor; person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, […]
“Israel’s Sin And The Servant’s Obedience” 1. Thus saith the Lord…….. “Where is your mother’s “GET” (certificate of divorce), which authorizes “Cutting Her Off” or better yet, to whom do I (Jehovah) owed so much money, that I’ve sold all of you into slavery because of your sins. ********************* Rather…..this generation of Israel’s people has sold themselves, and because […]