"Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know." (Jeremiah 33:3 NIV)"I need this thing …". So begins the customer's request upon arrival at the hardware store. My husband, the employee, must next discern what is needed....
"You cannot serve 2 masters at the same time. You will hate 1 and love the other, or you will be loyal to 1 and not care about the other. You cannot serve God and money at the same time." (Matthew 6:24 ERV)"You must decide what you are going to do. How long will you...
I can remember when I was in college I cut out two magazine pictures, one of a silver gray Mercedes and one of a Mansion. They were what I dreamed of driving and living in. I had spent most of my childhood growing up in my Nana’s old, ramshackle house with my Mom,...
Why do I Go to Church?Erik the Red, a ferocious Viking descendant living in newly established Iceland, followed in the footsteps of his dad. His father had come to Iceland after being expelled from Norway for an unjustified killing, and now Erik faced the same...
"In Him we live and move and have our being." (Acts 17:28a ESV)Recently, I saw a photograph in which a koala bear clung for dear life to a branch high above the ground. His eyes were squinted tightly shut as if to block out an approaching disaster. The caption read,...
As a child, I well remember being very envious of a neighbouring family. There were three sisters, lovely children, who house was grander than ours, with a piano, and they went on wonderful vacations. As the only girl in our family, I longed for playmates,...
There it was. That little black line on the map leading to a remote hot spring in Grenada. And where there’s a black line on the map, there must be a road. When the entrance to the road was where it was indicated on the map, we took courage. We pointed the nose of our...
