I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live — Deuteronomy 30:19
The conversation was about food.
But it turned into the matter of the heart and the head (I believed change happened in the heart; she said it was the head – guide by logic, not emotion).
Logic. Laws. Hundreds of them — 600+ of them.
Why asparagus and red cabbage were off the table.
The difference between milk and almond beverages.
The history of our nation – master builders, builders, and us.
How he fought with Him, anger for the millions of death in his lifetime.
How they all left Him.
How she did her own search and found the way of her people.
On forgiveness, she would not be forgiven.
It cannot be, she said. How can we not have to pay?
No, but our lives do not finish; we come back to redo lifetimes of wrong, she said.
And the way out?
She called Him dead.
And I call Him life.
And the law, indeed, led to death…
Remembering M, and praying she finds Life.
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