Our Almighty Heavenly Abba Father owns all the cattle on a thousand hills (and everything else). He tells us that the meek will inherit the Earth (Matthew 5:5). That means that when we are submitted to his will, listening and attentive, when we are teachable and...
I get a chuckle out of Google’s daily tributes to individuals or events significant on the day’s date through it’s search portal. On this date, May 4th, a few years ago the honoree was Jane Jacobs, a Canadian and American journalist, author, and...
One of more than a few “aha” moments that have converged for me is this: I am not a “social justice warrior”. That is the work of people with causes/issues for which to battle. I am an advocate whose task is to battle for a particular person...
I will never again blow my horn at someone ahead of me who fails to jack-rabbit-start at a green light! ( I’ve never been real quick to do so as it seems a good way to get shot by someone with road rage in our world today.) I was on my way to a yoga class, in...
From 4/19/2014 “The people whom I have friended on facebook are part of my “community”. They are, to a large degree, people I engage with and who hold me to living accountably for my walk with Christ…..not perfectly, as none of us does...
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries;...
From 4:19/2015…. “In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls upon men, while they slumber in their beds, he opens the ears of men and seals their instruction.” Job 33:15-16 The context for this scripture is that God warns us through...
4/16/16 God makes use of everything….everything that happens to us can become a springboard that God will use. As I have shared with students and others through the years, however, sometimes God uses it as a good example…Other times he uses it as a...
Prayer during Communion……another tradition. For a number of years now, since some Holy Communion services at Blue Lake Campground, it has been my practice to pray as I sit during the communion service after taking communion and as others go forward to...
From 4/16/2017: I had phoned in my message title and scripture for today’s sermon to the voicemail of the worship leader. He called me back the next day to verify what he’d taken off the voicemail. He sounded confused by my choice! Luke 1:1-3….After...
