My friend posted the other day how she was enjoying her early morning scripture study with a group discussion and peppermint tea. I let her know she inspired me.
I made myself some peppermint herbal tea, sat down on the couch with my scriptures to where I left off in Nahum in the Old Testament, and started reading.
"Woe to the bloody city!"
It continued like that through several verses.
"...and a great number of carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:"
In fact the whole chapter was like that, prophesying the destruction of Ninevah.
Not quite what I was expecting when I sat down to relax with my scriptures but I guess it can't all be the good tidings of great joy like in our family Countdown to Christmas scripture study this month.
Seems like the peppermint woke up the senses to seeing an even deeper story. I laughed at the irony of relaxing peppermint tea and then the Old Testament stories of war and destruction.
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