Sublime

3Then the LORD said, “My spirit shall not abide[22] in mortals forever, for they are flesh; their days shall be one hundred twenty years.”

Mutely the chapel looked back at him across a car park glossed by rain. Its door was closed, and newly painted green; beside the door a green bay tree flourished like the wicked in the thirty-seventh psalm. An east wind blowing up the Alder moved the cold illuminated air, and the bay tree danced in its small black bed. The chapel did not dance. Its

Psalm 6, David seems to fear that his sin and eventual death will separate him from God.

We have to be careful about building theology from the Psalms unless it can be backed up elsewhere in Scripture.

Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy rel

Teishin,

was at the Lord's Table but whether he was really present at the slave's cabin, whether slaves could expect Jesus to be with them as they tried to survive the cotton field, the whip, and the pistol.

The Church found a way of living with the unexplained delay, because