This second of the trilogy, Touching God, provides a daily short saying from the ancient sheik, Job, from King David’s psalms, and from his son King Solomon’s Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Job lived some thousand years before David and Solomon; yet we see the same wisdom of God shines forth in every millennium of mankind. Since it is illegal to copy long passages of modern translations, I spent many hours carefully paraphrasing all the “Wisdom Literature” taken from the King James Translation which is not copyrighted. I updated the vocabulary used in 1611 Middle English to modern words. We no longer say thee, thou, hast, knowest, so those words all had to be modernized. Middle English vocabulary was sometimes different also. For example, “froward” does not mean to go ahead; it means difficult. In 1611, words were spelled much differently, many letters of the alphabet shaped much differently, and numerous commas were inserted every few words. Their sentences were often in reverse order. For example, the text would read, “I beheld not the moon, ” and I reversed it to “I did not see the moon.” We, today, have great difficulty reading English written four hundred years ago. Here is an example:“ In the beginning God created the Heauen, and the Earthe. And the earthe was without forme, and voyd; and darkeneſſe was vpon the face of the deepe: and the Spirit of God mooued vpon the face of the waters. And God ſaid, Let there bee light: and there was light. And God ſaw the light, that it was goode: and God diuided the light from the darkeneſſe. And God called the light, Daye, and the darkneſſe he called Nighte:. and the euening and the morning were the firſt daye.”The beautiful cover is an original by famed watercolorist, Betsy Kemp Thompson.
Table of Content
Books By This Author ii
Betsy Kemp Thompson ~ Cover Artist iii
Read this First 1
January 2
February 17
March 32
April 47
May 60
June 74
July 89
August 105
September 117
October 128
November 139
December 150
Thank You 161
Get All 3 Books In The Touching God Series 161
About the Author 162
About the author
The Detroit Institute of Art, with a collection valued at over 8 billion dollars and 100 galleries of art from around the world was the home away from home for Betsy Kemp Thompson from the time she could ride the bus alone and on into adulthood. The DIA is among the most visited art museums in the world, especially by Betsy.
Every Saturday for years ~ some 500 trips ~ Betsy went to the DIA and spent all day meticulously studying the 8′-and-10′ tall oil portraits, scrutinizing the paintings by world-renowned artists, and studying landscapes covering entire walls in both galleries and massive hallways.
As an adult, she hosted a television show in Nashville, Tennessee ~ A Brush with Art ~ teaching watercolor methods.
Some of her many watercolors are for sale on her website at https://watercolorsbybetsy.wordpress.com
She has resided in Nashville for nearly forty years, where she and her husband, Sam (the love of her life) have spoiled three children and numerous grandchildren. They have done inner-city work together in Nashville for thirty-eight years.