HeyJaredPatterns and Anomalies
reflecting and musing on the twists and turns of life through a cultural and sometimes theological lens
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Death Can’t Have the Last Word (opens the original)
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I can already tell this is going to be an amazing semester. My classes are quite fire. My professors, almost all of em Black (well, maybe half of them, but still!) My emotional and mental health — probably the best it’s ever been. If you’ve been following my writing here for long, you know I’ve been in a near-constant state of crisis about something: relationships, family, my home, identity, faith, money. At times, it was even me vs. me. My Grandmother used to say, “If it ain’t one thing, it’s a
All is Vanity (opens the original)
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There’s a reason that no children’s stories are taken from the Wisdom books of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon. Notice that the books of the Torah, the first five books, and the Ketuv’im, the books of the prophets, is where most children’s stories are sourced. The third collection of books, the Nevi’im – the Writings – and particularly the Wisdom books, wouldn’t be appropriate for children. Scholars have deduced that the books of the Nevi’im come from later in the timeli
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