(From my “too good to delete” file) Mary and her husband Jim had a dog named ‘Lucky.’ He was a realcharacter. Whenever company would come for the weekend, Mary and Jim wouldwarn them to not leave their luggage open because Lucky wouldhelp himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably, someone wouldforget and something would come…
Author: Pam R
Thoughts & Observations
Resurrection – Going Forward The resurrection of Jesus was simply God’s unwillingness to take our ‘no’ for an answer. He raised Jesus, not as an invitation to us to come to heaven when we die, but as a declaration that he himself has now established permanent, eternal residence here on earth. He is standing beside…
Thoughts & Observations
On The Resurrection We live and die; Christ died and lived!John Stott What happened on that day (of Easter) became, was and remained the centre around which everything else moves. For everything lasts its time, but the love of God – which was at work and was expressed in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from…
On The Road
13 Now that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem. 14 They were talking with each other about everything that had happened. 15 As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them; 16 but they were kept from recognizing…
Unusual Easter
Easter was strange this year. No new clothes, no gatherings in churches, no hugging fellow parishioners, no special dinners, no restaurants. Nothing at all except the fact that He is risen. He is risen indeed! And because there was nothing happening to distract me and nothing else to think about, that stayed with me all…
The Day Between
Mary Magdalene “I woke with the first sleepy birdsong today while the sky was still dark. For a few minutes, I just lay there, wondering why I felt so heavy and sad. “Then I remembered. He’s dead. And bitter anguish overwhelmed me again. “I don’t know how I got through yesterday, an regular day suddenly…
Gardening Wisdom
Suddenly, we are having days with warm temperatures and scented breezes, and suddenly I find myself thinking about the garden. And this year, for the first time ever, I’m thinking about … vegetables! “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” Virgil A. Kraft Everything that slows us down and forces…
From the Cat’s Eyes
Last Saturday I posted the story of The Pastor’s Cat. It’s written from the point of view of the Pastor, who failed to rescue the kitten (or did he?). Then we see the perspective of the Mother, who placed impossible conditions on God (or did she?). Then it’s through the eyes of the child, who…
Choices
Great Wisdom from the “Unknowns” Happiness and self love are moment-to-moment choices. There will inevitably be times when we don’t make them. The beautiful thing is that every moment is a new opportunity to choose again. Every moment is a chance to apply what we’ve learned. We need to have the courage to do what…
Give Us This Day…
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…