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On Reading the Old Testament We begin as eager beavers, partly in gladness for new tasks, partly in anxiety for much work to do, pardy in fear at all the unlearning we must now face. We begin yet again another new beginning as our learning always does— only to discover yet again that our beginnings are in the midst of your continuing, your continuing sovereign demand, your continuing gracious mercy, your continuing dread-filled presence. So we put our beginning down in your continuing, confident of the edges of our faith, and so free for the big things now to be learned and received and enacted. As a class in Old Testament we pray as the leisure class with much free, unencumbered time entrusted to us, we imagine ourselves to be highly burdened, but in fact we are deeply privileged. We pray this day that we have received from you, that we may live it back to you in wonder, love, and praise. Amen. September 6, 2002 2o ...

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