"Good fences make good neighbors", the television commentator said, misquoting Robert Frost for the millionth time in my memory. It made me wonder if the esteemed poet was not looking down from Heaven and sadly shaking his head. No line of poetry has ever been more...
"Beloved, let us love one another." (1 John 4:7) My kitchen table was covered with papers. It was the end of the month and I was trying to get all of my paperwork done and taken to the office on time. I sat down in a chair, picked up my pen, and started writing on the...
God definitely has a sense of humor. As a writer I know this because He always gives me the deepest, most profound, and touching insights when I am far away from anything that I can write them down on. I think He must smile while I strive to keep them straight in my...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 1, we discovered that although we don't fully understand the reason why Ezekiel went to such trouble to give a detailed description of a temple that has never been built, there are many vital lessons to be learned from...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 12c, we discovered that when we are called to sacrifice and we obey that call, we must be aware that our gifts to God may be molded and formed in His hands and the end product may look little like the initial gift....
There was a work bee this morning, out at the barn where my boys and I ride. The place was literally "buzzing" as chain saws cut fence posts to length, skill saws sliced through boards for new stall doors, hammers pounded 4 inch nails into jump standards, and the...
"I pray …. That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you." (John 17:20,21) Hand crocheted by my grandmother, this treasured tablecloth has individual squares that were made first, then sewn together. A couple of buttons snapped off in the...
Last week, in Lessons from Ezekiel's Temple, Part 13A, we discovered that the trickle of water emerging from Ezekiel's temple is a symbol of God's Spirit pouring through us. It then merges with that which pours through other Christians to become a raging torrent that...
My father and I have always been avid duck hunters. I first started going with him on hunting trips when I was 10 as an observer, but wasn’t allowed to actually hunt until I was 12. For us, it has never been about how many ducks we shoot (If it was, we probably...
In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest: This is what the LORD Almighty says: These...