"The righteous keep moving forward, and those with clean hands become stronger and stronger." Job 17:9 NLTAs a young boy, clean hands were important to me-a trait that has obviously been passed down to my grandson. As he attempts to master eating with a fork and...
James 4:1-3 "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask...
"Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!"...
"Jesus replied, 'A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean.'" (John 13:10 NLT) Sometimes, chickens leave behind more than eggs and meat. My maternal grandmother-a residence of Vance for many years-had a dozen or...
While I was using a bar of my homemade goat soap, I was once again amazed at how such a lovely, gentle cleansing agent comes forth due to using the caustic substance, lye, to produce it.To make the soap I add a considerable amount of lye crystals to slushy goat's...
Have you ever wondered if you could truly be forgiven by God, our Father? Is your past haunting you? Are the faces of those you hurt in the past etched forever on your memory? Does it seem that nothing you do ever seems good enough, and that you really deserve the...
Some people are taught that in order to go straight to Heaven you have to merit Heaven and do penance, rituals and prayers etc. It isn't for love of God that you do these things, but instead when that happens it is trying to manipulate God and the action is for...