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Each perch at the bird feeder was full as I glanced out my window this morning. "Full house," I thought, "glad I filled it up!" Some restaurants also experience a full house, especially on week ends. "Sorry," they will say, "reservations are full." This can be a...
"For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe." (1 Corinthians 1:21) It never ceases to amaze me how preaching affects different folk. There are...
"The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it." (Gen 2:15 5 NIV) My Thoughts in Meditation The following are my thoughts in response to the latest report released by the WWF on climate change, in which it was alleged that...
Have you ever pondered that commonly used phrase, 'I need to find out who I am'? Well, so do I and I feel like an insignificant brown wren on a feeding table for parrots. All the food is aimed at parrots. There are big pieces of corn and sunflower seeds and other big...
The course had been rocky. As a beginning rider, I had never purposefully done canter-jumping, and I had only occasionally done more than one jump at a time. But here I was, seated on Sir Steven, in the middle of the ring with 12 other contenders, riding an...
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." (Galatians 5:22,23) In Savannah, Ga. There is a well known eating establishment called Mrs. Wilkes...
"And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, 10 so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ, 11 filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through...
"Clap your hands, all you nations; shout to God with cries of joy." (Ps 47:1 NIV) I have been exercising a lot more lately. I am not talking about those push-ups and sit-ups I do in the morning, either. The exercise I am talking about lasts all day long and makes me...
"Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble." (1 Peter 5:5) When growing up, the elderly were to be respected no matter how bad, childish, or mean they behaved ... also toward...
Throughout the Bible, there is evidence of another world; that humans have physically gone there, that we have been visited by others from that world, and that physical evidence has been left behind from this other world. We call this world Heaven. But, it is nothing...
"In his heart a man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." (Proverbs 16:9) Have you ever been in a swimming pool, and tried to swim against the flow of the water jets? Or been in the ocean, and tried to swim against the direction of the current? It is a...
Dear Diary, This evening, I glanced at a phone number and remembered it without looking twice. And, I made myself a note .. and remembered those numbers without looking again; two times in the same day! They were appreciated reminders that life is, finally, getting a...
"Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy...