(This story so far resides here: ofourmaker.com/2023/10/17/adolphus-search-and-rescue )
Needless to say, everyone present was curious to go with Number One, but naturally only Gareth went this first time. Gibbsen didn't count (which he often used to good advantage).
Her brother met them - standing erect, in a dark suit, with combed hair, and wearing shoes. He gave a toothy smile, which in his lined and weary face looked noble.
"Brother," Number One said quietly. She went and put her head against him, and he stroked her tumultuous hair. "Haho," she said, muffled in his suit coat.
"Haho, little sister. Number One they are calling you."
"And they will call you Number Two!"
Dr. Kilver shook his head, with a smile under his moustache.
"I and the SAC took the liberty of naming him: we chose Moses, because we drew him out."
"Yes," her brother said, "I am Moses."
"They named you!" Number One said in an awestruck voice, with her hands on his arms (which was silly behaviour to Gibbsen).
Drops of sweat were growing on Moses' brow, and he stepped awkwardly away from his sister - but it was only to sit down in a chair, and slump forward as though he had been holding his breath until that point.
"I stand hard to stand so high for meeting you, Sister. So it is not easy to stand."
"Your heart was beating hard not because I see you?" Number One asked, with some very human humour in her tone. Another smile was his only response to that. He spoke to the doctor:
"We will choose a next gluckast this time, and will take her?"
"We can hope for a good success in taking another in, yes."
"Please, choose the one I want: she who was my mate."
To be continued.
#dailycreatedoom #writtenoom #adolphussearchandrescue 2023/11/05
11.4.23 Shabbat Service
https://fb.watch/o8bXXqZzMI/
THIS WEEK
Chayei Sarah חַיֵּי שָֹרָה
Life of Sarah
TORAH GENESIS 23:1-25:18
PROPHETS I KINGS 1:1-31
GOSPEL JOHN 4:3-14
Portion Outline
TORAH
GENESIS 23:1 Sarah's Death and Burial
GENESIS 24:1 The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah
GENESIS 25:1 Abraham Marries Keturah
GENESIS 25:7 The Death of Abraham
GENESIS 25:12 Ishmael's Descendants
PROPHETS
1KI 1:1 The Struggle for the Succession
1KI 1:28 The Accession of Solomon
Forgiveness of sins and eternal life are gifts of God, granted by his grace alone. Nobody can buy or work their way into eternal life. Eliezer, Ishmael, and Isaac make a great illustration of God's plan.
Romans 4:4-5, Genesis 15:1-5, Genesis 17:15-21
https://rumble.com/v3tya0y-a-m....etaphor-of-grace-in-
"Bury your dead" is stated seven times in the story of Sarah's death and burial in #genesis 23, but the words are reversed in the seventh incident. This is perhaps a hint at the ultimate reversal of death at the final (7th) judgment.
Rabbi David Kaplan says that the six statements are about the six righteous people buried at the cave of Machpelah who are only *called* dead when they were buried, though they are truly alive, while the seventh is an allusion to the head of Esau who was *truly* dead before burial because of his unrighteous nature. This too is prophetic of the final resurrection.
#chayeisarah
PHARMACY MEANS WITCHCRAFT
Did you know that the word once used to describe witchcraft, sorcery & magic is the same word we use for the place we pick up our medications?
It’s true! You can even find it in the Scriptures (in Greek)
Witchcraft, magic & sorcery became pharmacy. Our modern word for pharmacy came from the Greek word, pharmakeia.
23. ... " For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, for by your drug sorcery all the nations were led astray.
24. " And in her was found the blood of the prophets and Qodeshyim (saints), and of all who were slain on the earth. "
Revelation/Chazon 18:23-24
Post courtesy of: Esua Calaway