Meditation:
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may
abound in hope.
-- Romans 15:13 (ESV)

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Quotation:
The New Testament is an intensely personal document. It is
not the effort of a group of men who are out to prove
something to us by the force of their rational arguments. But
it is the testimony, or testament, of a group of witnesses...
who are bent on simply reporting to us the experience of a
love that overtook them and overwhelmed them, a peace that
passed all their understanding, and a peace that they in turn
would pass on to us.
... Robert L. Short (b.1932)