Pray with me! Sirach 1:21 footnote. Thanks and Praise! Reflection: I’ve witnessed throughout our days how one wrong can bring pain to many. I reflect on the pain I caused and the ripple effect that never stops. How one drop of water can transform into a giant wave and a tiny gesture could have stopped it all. Still, I can praise God, for he does not forsake us, especially when the wrong is set right. Through Him, righteousness eventually rises, truth and trust is formed, so healing can begin. Da

The Simulation in the Covenant Between God and People - The Book of Sirach gives us insight into the Covenant between God and man. The Covenant is eternal, based on the relation between God, who created a separately personal soul that will continue to live in various simulated worlds, and humans in their predetermined state. Ben Sira writes that God made human beings out of the material used for this simulated world, only to return it back after a certain period of time (Sirach 17:1-2). Ben Sira