“The LORD was with the people of Judah, and they took possession of the hill country. But they failed to drive out the people living in the plains because the people there had iron chariots.” Judges 1:19 ESV January is for me a month to take stock of the past year and recalibrate for the […]
Remember that you were once slaves in Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out with amazing power and mighty deeds. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day—The taskmasters were urgent, saying, “Complete your work, your daily task each day, as when there was straw.” […]
How do you measure the worth of a day? What’s your criterion for ‘a good day’? Most of my life I’ve kept journals—recording happenings, feelings, revelations, and just plain history. They’ve become repositories of words that track my life. When I was young I wrote of actual things that were happening. Things that seem mostly […]
Jacob’s all-night wrestling match with God has long been a fixating story for me. I returned to this post this week because I still need the reminder that rest is found in surrender to our Faithful and Almighty God… “Jacob Wrestling with the Angel,” by Gustave Dore, 1855 What is the essence of this story […]
My mind has been pre-occupied this week with weather and flight schedules as I’ve watched long-distance as my little birdie made her way back to school from wintery Nebraska to Texas… Not one but two flights were cancelled…and the rescheduled ones had lengthy delays over dragging hours, and an overnight in a hotel en route. […]