Happy Today

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Happy those who keep justice, who do righteousness at all times.  Psalm 106:3 (Robert Alter translation) At all times – “If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.  If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.  If you’re happy and you know it then your life will surely show it.”  So…

Blessed

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“How blessed are those who keep justice, who practice righteousness at all times.” Psalm 106:3 Blessed – An Old Testament beatitude.  Jesus was not the first to use this pattern of speech.  He was an Old Testament man, and he taught from the Old Testament Scriptures.  Here is a beatitude of David.  The word in…