A hot cup of tea with a bit of sugar and some real cream is such a wonderful relaxing, friendly thing to share. I’m sitting here this evening with the tea things still out and the house suddenly empty and quiet as the mom and her young tribe that came to share some sips and […]
Do you see him there, off to the side? It’s the big brother, the one with the piously crossed hands, the unfeeling eyes, the ‘upright’ posture, looking on unmoved as his father welcomes his filthy ‘prodigal’ brother home. The prodigal’s unsatisfying profligate lifestyle drove him back to the Father but what about his big brother? […]
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 […]
I experienced wind this week—mighty rushing wind, and the waves it whipped into a frenzy. Frightening wind. Uncontrollable, unpredictable, unescapable. We could only keep the sail trimmed and angled to propel us forward and hang onto the tiller, compensating for the tossing about with corresponding shifts of the rudder. It is a fearful thing, a […]
While I was thinking about the implications of discouragement and how it can be an indicator of idolatry, a very timely article came to my “Inbox” regarding the hopeless spiral of pursuing things other than God, i.e. idolatry. [If you missed last week’s remarks on idolatry you may want to read: Why you are Discouraged] […]