What Our Words Can Never Say

Emerson wrote: “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” -1 Indeed, actions not words are most important. These days, we don’t have to look past the morning news to find glaring examples of such hypocrisy – the “do as I say, not as I do” condition that has plagued humanity throughout the ages. More than one-hundred years ago, a religious snob, who liked to appear full of virtue, said to Mark Twain, “Before I die, I’m going to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I shall climb to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud!” To which Twain replied, “I have a better idea! Why don’t you stay right at home and keep them?”

Now listen to the Word of God spoken through the Prophet Amos some 2,800 years ago:
I hate and despise your feasts,
I take no pleasure in your solemn festivals,
I reject your oblations
Let Me…