"The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard." (Ps 19:1-3 NIV) The morning dawned...
"Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3) We could hear it before we could see it. One lone goose, honking loudly on his way in. If any other geese had been on the small lake this beautiful...
"A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out." (Isaiah 42:3, Matthew 12:20) Packing up the decorations from Christmas and the holidays, I began to feel a bit weary and bent down. Not really tired, although there had been a lot...
"For everything there is a season…….A time to be quiet and a time to speak." (Ecclesiastes 3:1-7) "I wait quietly before God, for my victory comes from him." (Psalm 62:1 NLT) First it looked sort of foggy. After the sun burned away the mist, we could see the beautiful...
"....you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord..." (Exodus 12:14) Do you like birthdays? I love my birthday. So much so that I don’t even mind what the double digits are registering. Holidays are for everyone. But your birthday is YOUR day! There is only one of...
"So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up." (Galatians 6:9) Yuk. Large, reddish black ants in bathroom. Again. Lights on- they scurried to hide and/or leave. Lights off – then on –...
"God turned into good what you meant for evil." Genesis 50:20 Recently I read of something that happened during the Tsunami relief efforts. There was woman in a town in Thailand, whose baby died in the storm. Afterwards, she came to know the Lord, and she asked one of...
"If you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved." (Romans 10:9-10)...
"He has made everything beautiful in its time." (Ecclesiastes 3:11) Several days had passed since I bought the beautiful big, plump rose. I cut the stem at an angle, under water (as the directions suggested). Then I placed it in a special bud vase, and set it on my...
"In your anger do not sin. Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold." (Ephesians 4:26,27) Where we live we boast we're having a dose of winter if the temperature drops down into the fifties, which it did last week....