It’s so easy to love beautiful things. It’s easy to call this yellow Iris “lovely”. But I read in the book of Matthew today that Jesus tells us to love our enemies. Love the ones who don’t love us. I find this is much more difficult and actually opposite of my human nature. As … Read more
Happy Monday! It is my prayer that you will find time to spend with God, today and throughout this week. What a difference it makes in the problems and challenges of this world when whatever we face we can take to the foot of the cross — and we can leave them there. Matthew 11:29-30 … Read more
With Cinco de Mayo just around the corner, last week the Brown Eyed Baker (a favorite blogger of mine) featured a few recipes with a Mexican flavor. Her Taco Dip caught my eye because it is so colorful and just looked “fun!” I had just made our favorite outstanding meatloaf for dinner and had set … Read more
We are just about ready to finish up another year at Community Bible Study. The class I attend started out last August studying the book of Revelation. Through the years I have heard a lot of comments from people who say they are “too scared” to study Revelation. Or those that say “I can’t understand … Read more
Happy Friday! I took this picture last year when visiting family in California. When I read this scripture from Ephesians this morning I thought of the prickly cactus that can represent the hurtful things in our life like bitterness, anger and wrath. But the little yellow bloom reminds me the Apostle Paul tells us to … Read more
A couple of times in the past 18 months I have told you about Hephzibah House in NYC. In my blog post Giving Glory to God I wrote about our friends Catherine and Russ and their journey to becoming Directors of Hephzibah House. Last Thanksgiving my sous-chef dish washing mom, the Chief, and I traveled … Read more