What the Selah!

Eugene Peterson, one of the best living Christian wordsmiths, offers this humorous take on the meaning of Selah--an oft repeated word in the Psalms--of which biblical scholars still can't figure out the meaning:

"Lacking a clear consensus from the scholars I have felt free to offer the less scholarly but more entertaining suggestion that Selah is a Philistine expletive that David learned during those hard years when he was banished from Saul's court and knocking around with ruffians and outlaws in the wilderness. He used it whenever he broke a string on his harp." Answering God, 148.

I like it.

Selah.

Humor according to Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand:

"Humor is not an unconditional virtue; its moral character depends on its object. To laugh at the contemptible, is a virtue; to laugh at the good, is a hideous vice. Too often, humor is used as the camouflage of moral cowardice." The Romantic Manifesto, 133.

Awkward Conversations with a Father-in-Law

Jacob the patriarch's conversation with his to be Father-in-law Laban:

"Then Jacob said to Laban, 'Give me my wife, for my time is completed, that I may go in to her.'" Gen. 29:21

John Piper's Skater Coat

(HT: Resurgence)