Woodpeckers & Songbirds
Heading to bed an hour earlier than usual meant waking up even earlier than usual. It's a quiet morning as one would expect at this hour. An occasional car passes. The air is still and there is hardly any sound of a breeze. Sitting with my coffee mug, I hear the...
Endurance and Future Hope
Another week in the study, "A Faith That Endures", and my appreciation for Paul's words grew yet again ... *~*~* Paul thanked God for the faith and love he saw growing in the Thessalonians. In fact, he tells others about their endurance and faithfulness to the Lord....
Questions, Doubts, and Answers
Devotional books have a unique way of speaking into our current lives even when they may have been written years ago. They have a way of reminding us that nothing escapes the eye of God. Not a single blessed thing. The enemy whispers his dirty little lies in which he...
Trust the Engineer
"I am the Lord, the God of all the peoples of the world. Is anything too hard for me?" (Jeremiah 32:27, NLT) "We need to hear that God is still in control. We need to hear that it's not over until he says so. We need to hear that life's mishaps and tragedies are not a...
Goal
Each Friday my writing stems from a word prompt. Five minutes, one word prompt. The prompt this week is … Goal. A quick check in a dictionary and I find 'goal' has been defined as "the result or achievement toward which effort is directed" (dictionary.com). I sat...
His Plans
In Acts 13, we find the story of Barnabas and Saul and a Jewish sorcerer, named Bar-Jesus. This sorcerer had attached himself to the governor of the region, who Scripture tells us “was an intelligent manâ€. The governor had invited Barnabas and Saul to visit him as...