In 587 BC, after an agonizing two-and-half-year siege, the great pagan king Nebuchadnezzar finally breached the walls of Jerusalem. There was a tragic, violent incident this past week at the Fowler Homes, our church related facility for the elderly in East Dallas. But while Ira may not always get the attention he deserves, the disparity in the Gershwin brothers’ respective notorieties has led to a sixty-year-running Gershwin joke—and of course poor Ira is the butt of it. He captures in verse the devastating and disorienting psychological, emotional, and spiritual distress suffered by those who lived and died during the darkest, most tragic chapter in Israel’s old-covenant history, when the Lord, in judgment, had “become like an enemy” to his own people (Lamentations 2:5).

And he remembers that God’s great faithfulness is inextricably connected to his unceasing steadfast love (Psalm 57:10). While my freshman year at college was many, many years ago, I still have some vivid memories of being away from home for extended periods for the first time in my life. The book is especially relevant during this 2018 campaign season as Sherrod is running for re-election.He explained that Biblical religion is a religion of knowing what God is going to do next because we remember what God has already done. It’s hard to see where God is and what God is doing when there’s trouble in our lives, or in our world. Among a “Good Crop of ’54 TV-AM Bloopers,” as the article was titled, the author referred to “The New York disk jock who waxed about the ‘music by George Gershwin and lyrics by his lovely wife, Ira.

Maybe it was because I read this in the thick of election season and I was just too inundated with political commercials, but. His Lovely Wife is a complex, surprising novel that explores a culture that celebrates women for their beauty then exacts a terrible toll.It’s bittersweet to reflect on how full of hope for change everyone felt back in 2006 and then on through 2008. They had seen bodies of young and old, common and noble, lying in the streets where they had been slaughtered, left to become shriveled horrors (Lamentations 2:21, 4:7–8). When tall, blond, and beautiful Ellen Baxter enters the Paris Ritz the day before Princess Diana dies, she s mistaken for Diana by the paparazzi. Those who know nothing about Connie Schultz and Sherrod Brown will find this book an amusing journey through a Congressional campaign.

I doubt this poet realized that these words — the words of “a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief” (Isaiah 53:3) — would so powerfully foreshadow Christ. There is no firm evidence that Ira Gershwin actually heard the quote itself, but considering that he lived until 1983, it is quite possible that he may have come across it in some form.You agree to pay such amount on demand, and you agree that that we may deduct such amount from any refund which we are obliged to make to you. A Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author of Life Happens draws on her own experiences as wife of Ohio congressman Sherrod Brown to describe what it is like to be married to a political candidate, as well as the realities of political life, from what really goes on during a campaign, to dealing with political intrigues and betrayals, to avoiding smear campaigns. Instead of promising people that everything is going to be all sunshine and rainbows if you will just believe in God hard enough, this kind of religion tells people that believing in God will help you make sense of the world as it is, and will steel your resolve to try to endure it, even change it. It denies the reality of neither, and the problem that it names so clearly is that when the darkness comes it “veils God’s lovely face. Aaron is a wonderful little dog, and his family recently rescued him from Bosnia, despite only being a year old and already experienced a lot in life, he is such a friendly little chap and learns really quickly.

If one of these hymns ministers to you, please take time to leave a comment so that I know that my blog is helping others as much as it helps me. May we live daily in the anticipation that this could be the day that we also experience that awesome event. And this is the very same thought that motivated Norman Clayton (1903-1992) to pen the words of this week's hymn choice. I play it from memory in the key of F) But all these years I've been singing "Some bright, glorious morning" instead of "golden morning"!

Nothing about the horrific circumstances of the city, the nation, or the author gives any reason for hope. I am also a former constituent of her husband, Sherrod Brown, and really appreciated his work as a progressive senator in Ohio. We have also been teaching Aaron a number of valuable life skills that enable him and his new family to live together side by side.