Monthly Archives: August, 2013
Rest is an activity!
Psalm 37 has nine imperatives. This is one of them. Please recall before reading this: an imperative sentence has an understood subject (you). “Rest in the Lord. . .” which is a resting while working kind of rest. It is not a rocking chair kind of rest. It is more like sitting in the shade …
Dogs and Love
“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples that ye show love one to another.” John 3:35 My neighbor, Patrick, owns five dogs of various sizes and breeds. He is also a very good dog owner. Each morning and evening he walks all five dogs at the same time. Somehow the leashes …
That Little Decimal Point
A friend of mine wrote a song some years back entitled, “Little Things” and its theme was the little things in Bible accounts. God does use little things, for instance, the little boy’s lunch. That aside, just now I was filling in a chart that tracks my nutritional intake. That chart tracks everything and as …
Whispering Hope
Since its publication in the late Nineteenth Century, the song, “Whispering Hope” has been a favorite of many Americans. To my dismay, that song is not in either of the hymnals that I personally own. Fortunately, it is all over the internet! There is no apparent hymn story behind the writing of the song. There …
Asaph
You know how it is when you have given yourself a goal and sticking to it drives you to distraction? Sometimes the end of the goal becomes more important that the goal itself. Bible reading can be that way. If your goal is to read the Bible through in a year-long plan, a person can …
Epic Fail
I only thought I knew what I was going to post here. God changed my plans. This post brought tears to my eyes and a feeling of kindred spirit with this lovely woman who is serving God in Haiti. Here is her post as the family retuns for another school year where her husband teaches …
Steps Upward
The 150 Psalms are somewhat divided into loose groups. Since not all of them are written by the same author, the heading on each Psalm gives us additional information from time to time. After many readings of the book Psalms, this time I stopped and researched those Psalms from 120-134 as they have the same …
The Shepherd's Presence 