Dark Brightness

Todayy’s devotion is around enduring in what is right and repending of what is evil.

Psalm 51

10 Hide your face from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and put a new and right spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me away from your presence,

and do not take your holy spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and sustain in me a willing spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

and sinners will return to you.

16 For you have no delight in sacrifice;

if I were to give a burnt-offering, you would not be pleased.

17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Luke 21

16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

17You will be hated by all because of my name.

18But not a hair of your head will perish.

19By your endurance you will gain your souls.

via PC(USA) – Devotions.

We are not expected to be faithful, for we cannot be faithful. We are not expected to be pefect, for we are human. We are expected to strive to do good. We are expectted to Love our God. We are expected not to abandon him, regadless of the pressure. Mnay have died to keep this. I pray this generation is spared this trial, but there are martys every year in the Caliphate.

May whe all have a clean heart and the spirit of God, for holiness exalts a peaple.

Alcohol affects the GABA receptor. Unlike the other GABAergic cleases — barbituates and diazepams — it is an inefficient anaesthetic, and a metabolic poison.

But like them, if you take enough you will stop breathing. There is a reason for the rituals around alcohol and other traditional ways of getting stoned. They minimise the harm from the active substance.

This does not.

A 13-year-old boy airlifted to hospital in a coma after drinking three-quarters of a bottle of vodka bought for him by an adult could easily have died, a judge said this week.

In Nelson District Court, Judge Richard Russell fined 22-year-old Lance Seymour Sowerby, of Motueka, after he pleaded guilty to buying alcohol to supply to a minor, the Nelson Mail reported.

Sowerby was at a Motueka liquor store in January when the boy asked him to buy alcohol for him and a friend, police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Stringer said.

Sowerby bought a bottle of vodka and the boy drank three-quarters of it.

He lapsed into a coma and was flown by rescue helicopter to Nelson Hospital, where he made a full recovery.

via Vodka buyer fined $750 after boy in coma – National – NZ Herald News.