September 10, 2028

13For who knows God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the Lord intends? 14For the deliberations of mortals are timid, and uncertain our plans. 15For the corruptible body burdens the soul and the earthly tent weighs down the mind with its many concerns. 16Scarcely can we guess the things on earth, and only with difficulty grasp what is at hand; but things in heaven, who can search them out? 17Or who can know your counsel, unless you give Wisdom and send your holy spirit from on high? 18Thus were the paths of those on earth made straight, and people learned what pleases you, and were saved by Wisdom.

3You turn humanity back into dust, saying, “Return, you children of Adam!” 4A thousand years in your eyes are merely a day gone by, Before a watch passes in the night, 5you wash them away; They sleep, and in the morning they sprout again like an herb. 6In the morning it blooms only to pass away; in the evening it is wilted and withered. 12Teach us to count our days aright, that we may gain wisdom of heart. 13III - Relent, O LORD! How long? Have pity on your servants! 14Fill us at daybreak with your mercy, that all our days we may sing for joy. 17May the favor of the Lord our God be ours. Prosper the work of our hands! Prosper the work of our hands!

9I rather urge you out of love, being as I am, Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner for Christ Jesus. 10I urge you on behalf of my child Onesimus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment, 12I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. 13I should have liked to retain him for myself, so that he might serve me on your behalf in my imprisonment for the gospel, 14but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that the good you do might not be forced but voluntary. 15Perhaps this is why he was away from you for a while, that you might have him back forever, 16no longer as a slave but more than a slave, a brother, beloved especially to me, but even more so to you, as a man and in the Lord. 17So if you regard me as a partner, welcome him as you would me.

135Let your face shine upon your servant; teach me your statutes.

25Great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them, 26“If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion? 29Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him 30and say, ‘This one began to build but did not have the resources to finish.’ 31Or what king marching into battle would not first sit down and decide whether with ten thousand troops he can successfully oppose another king advancing upon him with twenty thousand troops? 32But if not, while he is still far away, he will send a delegation to ask for peace terms. 33In the same way, everyone of you who does not renounce all his possessions cannot be my disciple. The Simile of Salt.