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Beauty falls like rain, we can't catch every drop, but we stand still with mouths open to slack our aching thirst. Beauty grows like leaves on the greening tree, we try to grasp the outline of each stunning leaf but can't. Our eyes can only take in so...
Jesus had nothing to hide. He was honest, open, genuine...and as we look through the gospels, we see this same theme throughout. What the people saw is what they got. No hidden agendas, no pretenses, just pure, unadulterated love. We see this especially during Jesus'...
Preparation seems to be a huge slice of anything we undertake. Even when I am washing up, I prepare the plates by clearing them of scraps, of rinsing the drinking cups, of emptying any used saucepans and so on. Then I begin the washing up. Planning a garden bed is...
"So if you sinful people know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to those who ask him." (Matt. 7:11 NLT) I was in a local store recently when I saw something that opened a window into my soul and let in a...
"For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit." (1 Peter 3:18) In his many books and lectures the great educator, Leo Buscaglia showed us time and again how...
Why did I give in? Some years ago, my friends and I walked on the soft sand in the Cabo San Lucas beaches. She elbowed me. "You're going with us. C'mon, parasailing will be fun." I frowned. "You're nuts. I'm not doing that," I said. "Going up in the air with nothing...
"Nothing wrong with my eyes," I joked to my optometrist. "It's my arms. They are getting shorter by the day!" Her retort was instant: "We do have an arm-stretcher in the basement..." Unfortunately for me, that solution sounded like something straight from the Middle...
As the sun began to send forth its pink and orange tendrils that Easter morning, I found myself being drawn outside for a walk in the sunrise. It was a glorious morning. There was just enough wind to stir the air. The birds raised their voices in songs of praise as...
Last Thursday, in "Arm-Stretching? Or Reading Glasses? Part 1", we saw from the example of my farsidedness and my need for reading glasses, that it isn't necessary to undergo the torture of "arm stretching" to be able to read and understand God's Word. Just like I...
I really don't want to walk in the rain, I thought. "C'mon let's go anyway," hubby said as we walked out the front door. The wind was blowing and a few sprinkles came down. I hesitated but relinquished to his insistence. "The sun will come out; trust me," he said. I...
Isn't it interesting how troubles always seem to come in bunches? It isn't a "mountain" of trouble, it's a "mountain range"! As I come off a current "mountain range" of problems, I have to wonder: Wouldn't each of these trials have been easier to take one at a time?...
"What's wrong with me?" I asked myself that question while seated in the window seat of the airplane. I plugged my headset, ready to listen to some music (I had preferred to listen to the Bible on CD, but had packed it away in my suitcase). "Excuse me," I said to the...
Heard of anecdotes when something done with an apparently good intention, but done in the wrong way, went haywire? Here's one for starters... Who can forget a school time story often told to emphasize the importance of proper usage of punctuation marks? It is said...