Today’s reading begins with four verses that speak of a certain generation. Or is it four different generations? I don’t know. Maybe it doesn’t matter.

What does matter is the truth conveyed in these verses.

Here is one of them:

“There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness” (12).

That’s my generation.

So to verse 12 I say: “Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me” (Psalm 51:10).

Yes, in me.

from Proverbs 30:12