A Good Book!

"In a Chinese folktale called 'The Neighbor's Shifty Son,' a farmer's ax disappears. Believing his neighbor's son to have stolen it, the farmer keeps watch all day, noticing how guilty both his neighbor and his neighbor's son appear. On the following day, however he finds his ax in the field where he left it. When he next looks at his neighbor, he sees a perfectly normal person with his perfectly innocent son. Learning the truth changed the way he saw his neighbor." (1)

The little tale quoted above comes from the pictured book (below it). The Wisdom Class, which meets every Tuesday at my church, is beginning to read this new book tomorrow: But I Tell You: Jesus Introduces a Better Way to Live by Karen L. Oberst. Her little bio says this about the author:

"Karen L. Oberst majored in Greek at Houghton College in Houston, NY. She is a librarian, and an elder at Klamath Falls Friends Church in Klamath Falls, OR."

It's a book where the author translates the Beatitudes from the original Greek to words we can understand more readily in our culture. Oberst is an excellent teacher.

I have previously quoted from this book, which you may look at here.