My Desktop Photo 25: Yukon Fall

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What is required of superiors towards their inferiors?

It is required of superiors, according to that power they receive from God, and that relation wherein they stand, to love,[1] pray for,[2] and bless their inferiors;[3] to instruct,[4] counsel, and admonish them;[5] countenancing,[6] commending,[7] and rewarding such as do well;[8] and discountenancing,[9] reproving, and chastising such as do ill;[10] protecting,[11] and providing for them all things necessary for soul [12] and body:[13] and by grave, wise, holy, and exemplary carriage, to procure glory to God,[14] honor to themselves,[15] and so to preserve that authority which God hath put upon them.[16]

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Home: September 16

Every Tuesday and Friday for the rest of September, I’ll be collecting posts on the topic of home. Do you have a post I should include? Leave the link in the comments here or email it to me. Poems, photos, lists, stories, you-name-it—it’s all welcome.

Recent home related posts

At Hiraeth, Kim has Home: An Eternal Dwelling Place and an Indwelling Presence.

You’ll find a hymn about the home at Dorothy’s Field Stone Cottage.

And from Ellen, a song about where our home really is at The Happy Wonderer.

I posted a poem about losing one home and finding the true one from Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet.

Update on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 11:26PM by rebecca

In the comments, Judy tells a touching story.

A very young First Nations boy in the Arctic, in response to my question, Where do you live? said, “My Mom is my home.” I’ve never forgotten his statement.