Last week, in Written on the Heart, Part 11, we saw that the death and resurrection of Jesus has rolled away all impediments. But the decision to have Him write on our hearts is ours to make. The Driver had stopped his freight train on the mountain top for safety...
Hey, the Election Fever is in the air. The International media in recent times has been abuzz with US Presidential Election News. The campaign speeches and moves of the Presidential candidates is analyzed by every News channel, even as the Candidates are presenting to...
On the side of our house, my husband has a small rose garden. He plants, prunes, fertilizes, and sprays the bushes. We so enjoy the beauty of the blooms, as well as their wonderful fragrance. A few months ago, he set 2 or 3 of the rose bushes, still in plastic pots,...
"'Should we pull out the weeds?' they asked. 'No,' he replied, 'you’ll uproot the wheat if you do. Let both grow together until the harvest. Then I will tell the harvesters to sort out the weeds, tie them into bundles, and burn them, and to put the wheat in the...
"So ... that you, being rooted and grounded in love ... know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God." (Ephesians 3:17,19) A great many years ago I purchased a couple of small potted green houseplants and hung...
"'I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,' declares the Lord." (Jeremiah 30:17) "Come to me and I will give you rest" (Mathew 11:28) Thick dust covered the hand-hewn ridges along the sides of the cupboard. Just an old junky looking piece of furniture....
Huffing and puffing, I pulled out weeds and dead undergrowth. I was working on a bank that was steep and it was easy to slip on the dry soil. Many of the shrubs had thick, dead undergrowth that stopped any water from reaching the soil, leaving it treacherously loose....
Scripture: "So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him." (Jer 18-3) Observation: Here, Jeremiah...
Have you ever tried to say something and however hard you tried to get it right, it came out badly? I wanted to say something and wrote it out very carefully. The subject was a complicated one and had presented difficulties for a lot of people over a long time. My...
A small corner near the water tank was just crying for plants. Recently cleared of weeds and edged with cement, it made a delightful kitchen handy-garden, just right for a few of those vegetables deemed essential every day. We planted two red capsicums for flavour,...