dual personalities

This was kind of a wild week with July 4th on Wednesday!

So much excitement in the middle of the week and then we went right back to work. So I am taking Friday off because daughter #1 is working in town. We are going to try to go to the Art Museum and see the new exhibit, “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Treasures.”

I am also going to continue reading Mohawk, the debut novel of Richard Russo, which was published in 1986. The reviews back then were pretty bad, but I am enjoying it.

And I liked this remembrance of the Gettysburg anniversary and the flag of the Union a lot. I love that old Lawrence quotes St. Paul on the double nature of man.

And on the Episcopal liturgical calendar we remember Jan Hus, prophetic witness and martyr, who was burned at the stake in 1415.

Faithful God, who didst give Jan Hus the courage to confess thy truth and recall thy Church to the image of Christ: Enable us, inspired by his example, to bear witness against corruption and never cease to pray for our enemies, that we may prove faithful followers of our Savior Jesus Christ; who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

[Hus is also commemorated as a martyr on the Calendar of Saints in the Lutheran Church and the date of his martyrdom is a public holiday in the Czech Republic.]

Have a good and peaceful weekend. Keep praying for your enemies.

*Toby Mac