"Clearly, you are a letter...This 'letter' is written not with pen and ink, but with the Spirit of the living God. It is carved not on tablets of stone, but on human hearts." (2 Corinthians 3:3) Writing letters has been becoming a thing of the past. Email, texts, and...
I'm dancing in my blindness and rejoicing in my disability. Crazy statement, isn't it? But I think you'll agree with the reason I have joy dancing in my soul. First, my friend, who has been there for me for years, always answers, "No problem...that was easy," each of...
It was the latest of a series of arctic blasts that had made for a brutal Winter here in the mountains of my home. I woke up shivering and shook my head as I saw the frozen ice patterns on the inside of my windows. After a hot breakfast I bundled up to go down and...
“You are the light of the world." (Matt 5:14) To me Fall will always be the most spectacular of the seasons. By the end of Summer the bright, green buds that gave the promise of new life in the early Spring have turned into dark green leaves. Having grown all they can...
"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:7,8) One year when I was in college my friend and I decided to skip the crowds going to the...
“I’ll be honest with you,” a woman shared with me, “I want true love. I want to cry out, help; I’m married to a man made of stone. I wish just once, on Valentine’s Day he would display a little romance.” Is romance what she really wanted? Here is the definition:...
I was sitting in my car in a convenience store parking lot nibbling on a biscuit that I had bought for lunch. The morning had been busy and full of errands and the afternoon looked like it would be even busier still. It was one of those days that we often get in...
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! I sat up groggily as my alarm went off. The bedroom was still dark and I fumbled for the alarm clock and switched it off. My body and mind just weren’t ready to get up yet. I groaned, laid back down, put my head on my pillow, and closed my...
It was the first day of 4-H camp. I was 10 years old and in the middle of a fist fight with another boy my age. I can no longer remember what the fight was even about, but I do remember that it wasn’t going very well for me. I was fortunate then when the camp...
The establishment of this world and the Garden of Eden followed logical steps emphasizing equal but specific points. Religions arise when specific points of culture are emphasized unequally and one point is deemed important above others. This is what happened when the...