So, as I posted recently, I got a tip about the Divine Office website, DivineOffice.org, that I can use as a daily meditation, if I could just be so sacrilegious about it, a daily tool to use, to connect with God and to connect with reality.
And, you know, these types of things, kind of, you know, especially given that this is just Scripture, there’s no commentary, it’s all just Scripture.
And it goes back before even the, the tradition here, this is a post-Vatican II accessible Divine Office, but it goes back supposedly before the church, it reaches back into the Jewish tradition and emerges with the church.
But, you know, I do the morning Divine Office and, you know, it really spoke to me in a way that told me that, you know, this is the path, this is a deep well that you can draw from and that you don’t have to use your critical thinking skills all the time in the way that you would have to if you were reading something written by one human, one modern human.
But, you know, I read, I poked around a little bit on some of the other tabs, you know, the mid-morning prayer, the midday prayer, even the evening prayer.
And, you know, I have to say that, you know, it’s this weird dynamic with God, right?
So it’s like, you know, I’m looking on the midday prayer and it says, they are happy whose life is blameless, who follow God’s law.
They are happy who do His will, seeking Him with all their hearts, who never do anything evil, but walk in His ways.
And that’s Psalm 119.
And that’s complete utter bullshit.
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