Let us look closely at our ways and examine them and then return to the Lord.Let us raise our hearts and hands to God in heaven.Lamentations 3:40-41 (GW) It is good for me to contemplate the value and direction of my efforts, making sure I’m aligned with God’s vision and the passions he has instilled …
Category: life
Eileen
For we know that when this tent we live in now is taken down—when we die and leave these bodies—we will have wonderful new bodies in heaven, homes that will be ours forevermore, made for us by God himself and not by human hands. How weary we grow of our present bodies. That is why …
Trees: The Tree of Life
And the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), knowing [how to distinguish between] good and evil; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and take from the tree of life as well, and eat [its fruit], and live [in this fallen, sinful condition] forever”— …
Trees: The Knowledge of Good & Evil
The Lord God made all sorts of trees grow up from the ground—trees that were beautiful and that produced delicious fruit. In the middle of the garden he placed the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to …
Seventy Times Seven
I don’t always get along with my husband. Shocking! I know! Sometimes I want to stay mad at him even when he apologizes. I want him to know just how hurt or mad I am and I don’t want him to think he can get away with whatever it was that he did or didn’t …
Maintaining Friendships
Two are better than one because a good return comes when two work together. If one of them falls, the other can help him up. But who will help the pitiful person who falls down alone? And if one person is vulnerable to attack, two can drive the attacker away. As the saying goes, “A …
Transferring Faith
The other day I was thinking about how easy it is to fall into the trap of self-reliance, basing my thoughts and actions on my experience of the world, and trying to learn how to navigate within it. I couldn’t help but wonder if that was exactly how I’d been living. Can you see me …
How We Weigh Words
I have a question (or two) for you. Are the words we say important? How about the words we pray, are they important? I was thinking about this after reading about simple prayers, that when we are praying, God knows what is on our heart. Thereby, it is more important we are communicating with our …
Growing
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence.2 Peter 1:3 (NLT) As I was reading this morning (of my birthday,) I …
My Writing Journey
And the Lord answered me: “Write the vision…Habakkuk 2:2a (ESV) My desire to be a writer began in grade school. I was about 11 or 12. I’m turning 64 next week and have yet to publish my first book. As you can figure out, this process has taken me over half a century, so far! …
The Far Reaches of Grace 