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Current Reading  ·  27 July 2026

Coincidence

Esther

There is one book in the Bible that never mentions God. It reads, at first, like a story about luck — until nahafokh hu, it was turned about, arrives at the exact point where everything pivots.

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Psalms  ·  28 July 2026

I Am Like an Olive Tree

Psalm 52

The same word sits under both men. Batach — to lean your weight on something, to rest on it, to let it take you. He leaned on what he had. I lean on this. Two men, the same posture, different ground.

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