JamesP: Keep the faith.
Eden: To do that, I need to listen to the written words. I can’t read them myself anymore, because I hear them in his voice, in my head. Can you help?
JamesP: Can I help, she asks. I am help incarnate.
Eden: *giggles*
JamesP: Ok, getting started. Tell me when to stop:
Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat.
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
listen, that you may live.
You will go out in joy
and be led forth in peace
the mountains and hills
will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field
will clap their hands.
Instead of the thorn will grow evergreen,
and myrtle instead of briers.
And this will endure forever,
Because I have promised it.
Eden: That was beautiful. Where is it from?
JamesP: You sound like you’re crying. Are you crying? Please don’t cry. Zay will murder me dead.
JamesP: It’s Isaiah 55.
Eden: Of course it’s from the book of Isaiah.
JamesP: It was our dad’s favorite passage. Zay is named after it.