Rev. Jeff Wood, First Presbyterian Church of Sebastian
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GOOD INPUTS FOR A GOOD YEAR
Psychiatrist J.T. Fischer wrote, “If you were to take the total of all authoritative articles ever written by the most qualified of psychologists and psychiatrists on the subject of mental hygiene — if you were to combing them and refine them … — if you to take the whole of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living poets, you (would) have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on the Mount. And it would suffer immeasurably through comparison. For nearly two thousand years the Christian world has been holding in its hands the complete answer to its restless and fruitless yearnings.” The best thought by the best thinkers, condensed and refined, would head awkwardly toward, but never exceed or ever best, the teachings of Jesus.
We all want to start the New Year in the strongest of ways. That will mean gym memberships, dry January, a new budget,… and perhaps new inputs for our mental and spiritual well-being. May I simply commend as an input, what psychiatrist J. T. Fisher commends, The Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew of the New Testament, and along with it all the rest of that gospel and the other three as well- – Mark, Luke, and John. Surely in them are answers to our yearnings for a good year… and a good life.
Rev. Jeff Wood, 1405 Louisiana Ave, Sebastian FL 32958.
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