Author: Pam R

*** The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years,…

“Springtime.” “Summertime.” “Wintertime.” They all trip lightly off the tongue. So why not “Autumn time?” *** For everything there is a season,a time for every activity under heaven.Ecclesiastes 3:1 NLT *** *** There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried…

Autumn! *** *** I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it.Lee Maynard *** *** “It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”  Winnie the Pooh, Pooh’s Grand…

Canada geese honk overhead. Blue Jays scream from the tops or trees. The leaves are beginning to turn, and I haven’t seen a robin for a while. This year the autumnal equinox, is Sunday, Sept. 22. Fall will arrive in the Northern Hemisphere at 7:44 a.m. CDT. This marks the first day of what is also known…

When I consider your heavens,    the work of your fingers,the moon and the stars,    which you have set in place, what is mankind that you are mindful of them,    human beings that you care for them?You have made them a little lower than the angels    and crowned them with glory and honor.You made them rulers over the works of your hands;    you put everything…

{God asks Job,]“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?Tell me, if you know so much.Who determined its dimensionsand stretched out the surveying line?What supports its foundations,and who laid its cornerstoneas the morning stars sang together    and all the angels shouted for joy?Job 38:4-7 NLT *** There is scientific evidence that the stars still…

Come, see the glorious things God has done. What marvelous miracles happen to his people!Psalm 66:5 Living Bible *** Miracles happen quietly every day – in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a roadside stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score. Mitch Albom *** O Lord my…

Who can list the glorious miracles of the Lord?Who can ever praise him enough?Psalm 106:2 NLT *** The miraculous is not extraordinary but the common mode of existence. It is our daily bread. Whoever really has considered the lilies of the field or the birds of the air and pondered the improbability of their existence in…

No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you:to do what is right, to love mercy,and to walk humbly with your God.Micah 6:8 NLT *** Walking in humility isn’t focusing on what we are not;rather, it’s declaring what God is.  A. W. Tozer *** The Lord says, “I will guide…

Yesterday was 9/11. I forgot. Well, not so much forgot; I wasn’t paying attention. I was more focused on “Wednesday” than on the date. Because I have not, and never will, forget the events of that day. Still, I feel a little guilty. In a nation as divided and angry as we are, it’s important…