I have a good friend who I normally decorate a table with for special occasions at church – Valentine’s banquets, Ladies’ Christmas Gatherings, etc. We each bring things we have at home and try to create something beautiful! Sometimes when we are trying to determine what will go on the table, one of us will say, …
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Willing
This time of year our hearts are turning toward Christmas, and the story we know so well. There is a lot of detail in Luke 1 and 2, beginning with the origin story of John the Baptist. Have you ever wondered why Zechariah was struck dumb for questioning the angel who gave him good news, …
Born Again?
I’ve always loved the line, “The happiest days are when babies are born,” from Gone With the Wind – Ms. Mellie. I do believe it is true. The birth of a baby and the arrival of new life, is undoubtedly the most impactful and profound experience a person can have. Even though the parents are …
What Are You Wearing
What are you wearing? I wonder how many times in our lives we have each said that phrase . Particularly women, want to know that they will not be overdressed or underdressed to the situation. This has most likely happened to all of us – we’ve shown up somewhere too “fancy” or too casual, which …
Words and Confessions
Words. Twenty-six letters in our alphabet. They can be arranged to create a nursery rhyme or great works like Shakespeare produced. Letters can be put together in such a way as to inspire, or to criticize, to convey truth, or to spread falsehood. In the very beginning, the world came into existence with words, God’s words. The nothingness became …
Servant First
“Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, …” (2 Peter 1:1) I once heard a seminary professor say to “always look at the greeting” in the Epistles of Scripture. How the apostles addressed their audience was important. Reading the Apostle Peter’s second letter recently, I noticed this – he identified himself first by …
When We Worship
“And they worshipped him, but some doubted” (Matthew 28:17). The Bible tells us that after the resurrection of Jesus, his appearance was changed. We can imagine a glorified body that had been through death and then resurrected victorious by God the Father would have been transformed from its former state. Whatever one believes about the …
Why Don’t You Ask?
Why Don’t You Ask? I suppose my love of pen and paper and notebooks began in early childhood. I was reminded the other day of a notebook I wanted when I was about 4 or 5 years old. This notebook resided on an aisle at Rose’s department store, and I would look at it each …
Slow to Speak
Predictive text – do you love it, or hate it? Sometimes I am thankful for it, but sometimes it’s annoying. It often tries to correct you when you are purposely spelling something a certain way, like a name, for instance. And sometimes it won’t give you the right choice for the word you are actually …
Declare His Glory
“O Lord, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. Here is the sea, great and wide, which teems with creatures innumerable, living things both small and great. There go the ships and Leviathan, which you formed to play in it” Psalm 104:24-26 Being …
Life By The Way 