The Plumbline

Slaked lime, a little chalk, and water - mixed together make a white substance which covers surfaces with a white coating.  It isn't really paint, but this white-wash will give the impression of coating and covering over whatever it touches.  The point of whitewash was not always to paint the surface, but to give a quick and very cheap covering.  It was also a cheap solution to covering over surfaces which needed some sprucing up.  As the whitewash is put on the surface, it provides very little protection to the surface - because it needs a few days to harden and almost "bond" with the surface it is used on. Living in Arizona, I have observed the combination of whitewash on the walls of adobe brick - something which actually works very well together because each binds well to the other.  These are both low cost building materials, and because of their strength, were some of the first types of buildings erected in the area.  There was an old saying that wen...

"Any and every Israelite—this also goes for the foreigners—who hunts down an animal or bird that is edible, must bleed it and cover the blood with dirt, because the life of every animal is its blood—the blood is its life." (Leviticus 17:13-15 The Message) The life is in the blood - the blood is its life.  These words speak volumes to those that suffer from incurable diseases of the blood.  The inability of the body to produce the right quantities of blood cells, the response of the body to produce too many of one type of cell over another, all create such "imbalance" and leave a person fighting for life.  The truth is that the very life of each and every man and woman is nothing without the blood! This week, my dearest friend will go through the process known as hematopoietic stem cell phoresis for the purpose of donating those life-giving cells to her brother who is fighting for his life with leukemia.  The process involves injections that will increase her whit...