When our friends Kathy and Len came for dinner and a movie at our house they brought with them a six-pack of root beer. After a fun evening of food, laughter, movie and dessert they left a couple of bottles of remaining root beer. Those bottles sat in my refrigerator for a while and on … Read more
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
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
The very best days of my life are the ones that I start out with time reading The Word of God. When I went to bed last night the TV news was filled with stories of violence, storms, and unrest all over the world. But first thing this morning I read Zechariah 2:8 which says … Read more