How the truths of Scripture change the way I live
I slept in till eleven this morning. No pitter pat of feet to hasten my waking. I think I needed the little extra anyway. The junior Skelton entourage left in the wee hours to make its way home today. I lent a hand to the pulling on of little socks and shoes, the tucking […]
I had a silly dream the other night–the kind you wake up from shaking your head at the preposterous suspension of good sense and logic in dreams. Anybody knows you cannot sustain a cut tree by periodic submersion in water, and yet this was the challenge that beset me in my dream: how to keep […]
Louie was a dog with a serious side, being of German extraction. Playing ‘fetch’ was no game. It was growling serious that he ‘win’, that he possess that stick and keep it from lying lost on the lawn or being snatched away from him…This was his work and there was nothing playful in it. He […]
God is here in these moments as I finish up the supper dishes, everyone gone out for the evening but me, here, with Him. Grateful. There is no audible presence. No proof of His nearness. Just His Word, His oath—I will never leave you nor forsake you… Tonight that is enough. I walked this afternoon, […]
Have you noticed how unique the walk of faith is for each of us? We are called to imitate Christ and yet we will not all be itinerate miracle workers without a place to lay our heads… Paul invited the brothers to imitate his example (Phil. 3:17), to follow him as he followed Christ, but […]