FROM TODAY'S READING (6/11/2014)...
Wendell Berry says that he knew a barber once who refused to give a discount to a bald client, explaining that his artistry consisted not in cutting off but in knowing when to stop.
- Eugene H. Peterson (Under The Predictable Plant, p. 139)
2 Peter 1:5-9 (NLT) Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone. The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.
