Inscribed By God
HAPPY PENTECOST! Happy Pentecost! As a North American Christian, I remember the story of the first Pentecost well. The believers were gathered in the upper room and suddenly, a wind blew, fire appeared over their heads, and they began to speak in languages they didn’t understand. One day, I discovered this wasn’t the entire story. […]
Leaping not Looking In the last post, I started to wander off the original topic…again. Sometimes I just get so excited about the thoughts that are popping into my head; I follow the trail and wind up somewhere completely different than where I originally anticipated. (Authors secret, this happens a lot! Especially in fiction.) Since […]
When Jesus Celebrated So, I have a confession to make. I got so excited while writing the last post that…I…forgot…to write the last post (or at least what I had intended to write). What I actually meant to write about was Jesus’s reaction when the 72 disciples returned from their […]
As Easy as a Free Meal Ever struggle with praying for someone to be healed? I have. I’ve had those all-too-familiar extra beats from my heart and flip-flops in my stomach when someone comes up to me and asks for me to pray for physical healing. I’m sure I’m not alone. The thought What if […]
Good Friday Really is Good I’m sure that the picture of a man, flesh torn up, dripping blood, and hanging fully exposed on two beams of wood is exactly what we imagine when we think of a conquering king. I’m sure this image, full of suffering and humiliation, is exactly […]
APRIL FOOLS! April Fools! Something about that phrase, and this day, makes me smile and laugh yet fills me with dread all at the same time. I remember pulling pranks as a kid like the old thread through the hem and filling the sugar bowl with salt. Except one year, the prank was almost on […]
Problems or Plans? God has no problems, only plans. I overheard this quote one day as I was walking through the family room in my house. It stopped me in my tracks. For one, it’s a clearly and succinctly spoken truth that, when allowed to hover and eventually sink in my mind and heart, drives […]
Praying for Ukraine and Learning Hard Forgiveness I confess that I originally had a different post pre-planned for release today. Interestingly enough, it featured Corrie ten Boom and her perspective on problems in life. I still plan to release that post, perhaps next time, especially since her views as concentration camp survivor and later her […]
Sifted and Refined My oldest participates in Bible quizzing through our church, and the first portion of Scripture they had to study this year was Job. I have to be honest, when I saw that I was like uuuummmm…. Since she is quite dedicated to obliterating any and all competition, she runs the audio files […]
Bless the Lord! But, God, I Don’t Understand… “The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord” I always thought of this famous quote by Job as somehow being a steady acceptance of the unthinkable, heart-wrenching, mind-blowing progression of tragedies that suddenly hit this man one after the […]