Our Daily Bread Bread has historically been a diet staple world-wide. It is featured in religious rituals and secular culture and in the Bible, where God supplied bread, Manna, in the wilderness: So the people of Israel went out and gathered it—some getting more and some less before it melted on the ground, and there…
Month: April 2020
Second Causes
“Second cause” is an expression used in theology to distinguish between God as the ultimate cause of everything that comes to pass and the myriad smaller causes we see at work in the world. ********** I was attending a prayer-meeting held in the interests of the life of faith, when a strange lady rose to…
The Pastor’s Cat
(From my “Too good to delete” email file, dated Aug 28, 2008) Dwight Nelson recently told a true story about the pastor of his church. He had a kitten that climbed up a tree in his backyard and then was afraid to come down. The pastor coaxed, offered warm milk, etc. The kitty would not…
“Before They Call…”
My 94-year-old mother moved at the beginning of March. Her new apartment, on the top floor of the same building, is much larger. Although she approached the process with anxious trepidation, the move went about as smoothly as these things generally do. But at the end, she was left with boxes and boxes and boxes……
A Broken Remote
God is great even when things in this world are bad. His power is shown so clearly when He makes good come from even the worst situations. Unknown Something is wrong with the “remote control” of my life. The only button that works every time is “pause.” I want to “rewind” to better days, but…
Rainbows
All of my windows have suncatchers in them, each one with a chandelier pendant that casts rainbows all around the room when the sun’s rays hit them. I love rainbows. That’s why all my window have suncatchers. Some mornings, though, when I open the curtains, I accidently set the suncatchers to swinging wildly. And while…