My goodness! Where did the last month go? I know that a significant number of hours in the last thirty or so days have been passed in the pleasant duty of keeping the two youngest of our five grandchildren. They have been regulars in our home as they (and their...
Haggai 1:5b-6, “Give careful thought to your ways. You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in...
My consult with a retinal specialist was moved up to yesterday. My 4 1/2 year old grandson had prayed with his parents and sisters and had been led by God to ask that this would be “just a spot, not a sickness.” Thankfully, his prayers (and those of many...
The following quote is from a February 21, 2007, Townhall column by Cal Thomas, writing about the rise of “anti-heroes” and the proliferation of mindless, prurient entertainment focused on the lives of celebrities whose lives both shock us and seem to provide...
Did you ever have a moment when you felt yourself standing on a prominence with a clear view of two vastly different possibilities for your life without the slightest inclination of which one will be yours? That is the kind of day I had today.Just this week I’d...
It’s been a wonderful holiday with grandchildren visiting. This week I was carting three of them back north to meet up with their parents for their return home. Along the way we made several stops. At one interstate exit with which I was unfamliar, I was on the...
Recently, as part of a class in Christian Education basics, I had to do some reading on diversity. Over the several weeks that I was working on this class unit, I had considerable generalized discomfort that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. Then, at the end of...
On Oct 12, 2005 I’d written about the three places in scripture where we clearly see sin reduced to three types- lust of the flesh (physical appetites), lust of the eyes (acquisitive desires for material goods or power), and pride of life (egotism, desiring...
Tonight I was preparing to teach a Sunday School lesson tomorrow. One resource I was reviewing had a series of Advent devotionals and one devotional opened with a reflection on doors, using as its imagery a picture montage of various doors from a city that was the...
One of the issues we revisit regularly in Depression Impact Group is the matter of suffering- why it is present, how we face it, consecrating it to God for His redemptive work through it, etc. Recently, I was struck with the fact that, in the New Jerusalem, the...
