It's the middle of the night. You're in a dark forest, so dark you can't see your hand in front of your face. There are others. Family, friends, co-workers, classmates, neighbors, people you don’t know and some you don’t particularly like. You can't see them, but they...
"'You are my witnesses,' declares the Lord, 'and my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor will there be one after me. I, even I, am the Lord, and apart from me there is...
They probably call it ‘white-out.’ We were up there in a ridiculously tiny plane, totally engulfed in white cloud. We were utterly dependent on the expertise of the young man in the pilot seat. I felt as though some one had typed me into the cloud and then gone over...
"Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops; 10 then your barns will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine." (Prov 3:9-10 NIV) There are many phrases associated with the word “blank”, such a drawing a blank,...
"Faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." (I Corinthians 13:13) The time came for my mother in law to do a major sorting out. 10 years ago she went through this process when she became a widow and moved out of her large Florida home to an apartment...
Dear Friends, Permit me to make you play the game “spot the differences”. Can you find differences in the seemingly identical 2 paragraphs below? I am Suresh Manoharan a sinner saved by the Almighty’s grace and living by His grace for the last 27 years. Even...
I heard a Nobel Peace Prize winner say once there were things she just had to do or she would die. I know what she meant. I have to grow things. So on the dry and barren hillside that was my garden-to-be, I made plant areas. The soil protested, the weeds protested and...
As a Senior citizen, I often think back to my childhood and the way we improvised, to compensate for lack of money. I smile when I remember the things my brothers and sisters and I did for snacks, so many years ago. It was during the years of the great depression and...
I pray that you will find this message worth while. It is not me jumbling on about something; I am jumbling on about something that I base my life around, so that I am not stressed about pleasing God. Read until the end so you may learn the whole message. I pray that...
Recently I received an e-mail forward about a 15 year old who had been abducted. I prayed for the boy, but as I don't make a habit of forwarding e-mail, I deleted it. End of story. The next day, I received the same email, from someone else I know. Then, suddenly, I...