What is written first at the top of your to do list?

Week beginning: 26th February, 2017 | By Claire Wilkinson | Nairobi, Kenya

"Listen, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD alone. And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up. Tie them to your hands and wear them on your forehead as reminders. Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates."

Deuteronomy 6:4-9 (NLT, 2007)


The most important of all Jewish prayers, this passage - the Shema Israel - is recited daily. Moses tells the people of God to listen and attend to the law constantly - because in so doing, the law also attends to us. We are meant to be continually r

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