"Keep alert and pray. Otherwise temptation will overpower you. For though the spirit is willing enough, the body is weak." (Matthew 26:41 NLT) All sorts of small animals have been visiting our yard during these beautiful spring days. They run and play in the...
HTML clipboard In last week's lesson on how much God desires to be with us, we discovered the truth from Song of Solomon 2:8,9 that God longs to be with us so much that He comes "vaulting the mountains, leaping the hills." He stands "on tiptoe at the gate" waiting for...
"Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in him." (Psalm 34:8) We pulled into a packed parking lot and looked for a slot. This particular turnpike stop had an eye-catching fruit stand out front. The salesperson encouraged me as she...
"If you knew the gift of God...you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." (John 4:10) Large clumps of fuschia colored flowers are planted in the round clay pots on our back deck. They are hardy, as well as butterfly attractors. Yesterday...
"He will not allow your foot to slip; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep." (Psalm 121:3-4) Patches of anemone type flowers in bright yellows and neon pinks clustered about our front walkway. So eye-catching,...
"Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.'" (John 4:10) "Jesus answered and said to her, 'Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whoever...
"Over a hundred years? Who in the world wants to live that long!" my friend said as she read the story of the man who has been documented as living the longest in modern times--a Bolivian man, reported to be 123 years old. Carmelo Flores Laura recently died after...
It was the strangest thing. My pillow was lumpy. What in the world? I thought as I reached inside the pillowcase and pulled out several of my favorite scarves one right after the other—my red, green, and lavender. “Young lady,” I called out to my six-year-old...
Dwight L. Moody’s favorite verse was Isaiah 12:2: "I will trust, and not be afraid." He used to say: "You can travel first-class or second-class to heaven. Second class is, 'What time I am afraid, I will trust.' First class is, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'" That...
During my elementary school days I went on several field trips to what you might call a theme park called Frontierland which was in western North Carolina. It was a big fort that you could go inside to see how the pioneers and Indians lived. The pioneers made forts to...