Yet again Easter’s over and I’m still ruminating . . .

Watcha been doing since Easter?

I’ve been doing a couple of things . . . 

One: Eating, well sucking eggs; chocolate ones last longer if you suck them it slows down the absorption of calories – Yeah right!!!

And two: Reading and ruminating in the First Testament (aka Old Testament), especially thinking on “the nature of spiritual formation and education.”

First rumination: 

• In Biblical Israel “education-is-formation.”

Second rumination: 

• Education as “whole-of-life-formation” centres in Torah as life-shaping revelation and relationship.

Third rumination: 

• First Testament education’s driving-assumptions were not occupied with differentiating sacred from secular; but applied in “engaging formation-for-life as either spiritual or profane.”

Fourth rumination: 

• Torah’s dynamic contribution toward whole-of-life-formation which commenced in the Sinai Wilderness; neither completes there, nor within early entrance into the land. It follows-formationally throughout the whole of Israel’s trans-historical experience in an ongoing interactive-process in which the development of Exodus-Deuteronomy Torah lengthens at least into the Persian period, if not beyond. “Living Torah” formed succeeding generations and communities not by imposition, but transposition.

Fifth rumination: 

• Jesus, Son of the Father, filled with the Holy Spirit, disciple of Torah raised in the home of "righteous-man Joseph carpenter of Nazareth" said: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Sixth rumination: 

• So “what’s the transpositional teaching of Torah and Jesus?” What can I learn formationally?

Oops . . . the last egg’s “gone” . . . now back to “rumination #6” . . .