The Glory of God
Around 1440 B.C., in an unusual mountain top encounter, God gave a man named Moses exact instructions on how to build…
Because of Jesus (With a List of Words to Describe His Life in Believers)
After His crucifixion and death, Jesus of Nazareth was the first human being to wake up from physical death, fully alive, fully human and Himself, but transformed into a new kind of spiritual body. This caused a paradigm shift on the entire timebound planet. It is impossible to list all the changes this has made […]
Your Today
Take time to thank and praise the Lord today. Do it until you feel HIS Holy Spirit welling up inside. Do it through tears if you must, in pain if it’s there, through your busy thoughts, until they are stilled and through your work until you know His work from your own. Take time TODAY […]
Beauty
Beauty I’ve been seeking beauty lately, thinking about it, writing about it, appreciating it and longing for more of it. Winter has grown dull. Fall’s tawny golden grasses and rich browns are faded, dull and washed out. The landscape is drab. Fortunately, all this outside monotony has been has been interrupted by unexpected surprises —fire […]
Self-Realization
Who am I? What defines my self? My family or friendships? My activities, like writing or painting? My thoughts, feelings, or body? Do psychological tests reveal my real self and give me clear life directions? Or will externals like economics, circumstances like Covid-19 or realities like aging define me? How do I find my true identity […]
Fog
My weather app says the sun is shining. Surely it is—somewhere—but around me it’s thickening fog. Dense clouds are dripping down a heavy wash of gray. The woods to the north are barely visible. Such impenetrable fogs trigger memories for me—always the same three.
Dense fog triggers memories for me—always the same three. The first, from 1962, is a comfortable one, full of family love, adventure and teamwork.
The Christian Vote
Note: Please READ this and pass it on—especially the Charles Finney quotation and comments at the end
Words to Abide in
This morning, I reached for my Bible and opened to John 14. I stopped reading at John 15:7, where Jesus says, “If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.”
I wanted that. I wanted it enough to stop and ask, “What must I do to get it?”
Cross Cultural Divides
The women in Jane Austin’s books fascinate me. Especially when they are blinded by their own faulty judgments and opinions. I identify with those who eventually see their mistakes and change their minds—and hearts.
A Morning Prayer
Note: Back in September, the morning I wrote this, a dear friend read it and said, “I love it. Publish it.” It was the last post my friend was well enough to read. Lord, I’m full of self and sleep—and want another ten minutes in bed. I need You to wake me up to Your loving power. […]
Teapots
Last Thursday I counted my teapots. I have fourteen of them. I don’t collect them; they come to me. The occasion for counting up was a new addition to the inventory . . .It was one of the noisiest look-at-me teapots I’ve ever seen in my life. It called out, “Embrace my imperfections.”
Essays in Ephesians #16
. . . in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. Ephesians 2: 21-22 Israel had known God’s glory— through centuries of sporadic yet repeated divine-human interaction through their kings […]
