"Suddenly, Jesus met them. 'Greetings,' he said." (Matthew 28:9)Our neighbors had been out fishing. What a beautiful day! The good catch made it even better. Tired, happy hands threw the fish out of the cooler, up onto the dock. One guy started cleaning the boat,...
It was midnight, and I lay tossing and turning on my mattress. Again. Lord God, cried my heart, it is such a little thing, why can't I fall asleep anymore? I finally got up. What sense was there in lying in bed when you can’t sleep? Besides, my shoulder was sore, and...
I had my 18 month Oncology check-up earlier this week. Though the news was all good, there was this one little test the Oncologist wished for me to undergo...Just to make sure... Suddenly I found myself faced with a decision: Do I get upset that there might be a...
"you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes." (James 4:14) Morning dawned foggy and misty. It took us by surprise, as we had expected bright, sunny and clear as it had been every...
"Then our mouth was filled with laughter, And our tongue with singing. Then they said among the nations, 'The Lord has done great things for them.'" (Ps. 126:2 NKJV) I am finding that my eyes are a little more moist these days. I seem to be tearing up from time to...
In the penultimate part of the series on the different dimensions to the heroic account of Sharach, Mesach, Abenego's death-defying act, we come to the second dimension: Decree... The wonder of the story of heroic faith of Shadrach, Mesach, Abednego (belonging to the...
I don't know about you, but I've always thought of Joshua as being a strong and courageous leader. Didn't he, after all, lead the people in the conquering of Canaan? When I read the account of Joshua taking over for Moses, however, I begin to wonder: was Joshua really...
Today we come to concluding part of the series on extracting deeper truths from the valorous account of Shadrach, Mesach, Abednego as enshrined in the third chapter of Book of Daniel: Rosy... And what of the future of these 3 heroic characters? It may never have...
When will I learn? You'd think by now, aware of the limitations of my blindness, I'd be careful, really careful with the experiments and projects my 6-year-old granddaughter and I do. "It's a disaster," she groaned. She was right. I had placed the hot iron on the...
I had seven charts to write, and if I wanted to have time for a lunch break, I only had an hour to write them. It might have been a possible task, but when 50 minutes had gone by and I had only finished four charts, I knew that my grumbling stomach would be...