Love Without End - Jesus Speaks

This week I participated in a Bible Study Camp begun by a wonderful lady named Mary Morrison long before I knew about it and was invited to participate. Mary was an extraordinary scholar, an author, a teacher, a woman of deep Christian faith, a Quaker-Episcopalian (and Summer Methodist). Her group of Bible Study students has survived her death, and each summer we meet for 4 days to study a book or scriptures, or both. This year's study was from a book by Glenda Green entitled Love Without End - Jesus Speaks. We decided to focus on chapters 9 and 10, which dealt with the Beatitudes (from Matthew 5) and the 10 Commandments (from Deuteronomy 5).

It was an interesting study. (side note: I had quoted from Green's book in the Reflections - a.k.a. Sermon - I posted in June). Although I cannot accept the notion that Jesus appeared to this author and posed for her to paint his portrait while dialoging with her about his teachings and teachings of the Scriptures, I did find her work interesting. After awhile I decided it did not really matter if I believed she had spent weeks in the presence of an enfleshed Jesus, yet not in the full physical sense, but through adamantine particles of light - which requires an extensive description of adamantine particles early on in the book.

I especially enjoy the company of the few ladies left in the study group. It is always good to get together with them again and share time and ideas.