Today is the Vernal Equinox, the First Day of Spring. In Chicago, Illinois, the equinox is on Thursday, March 19, 2020 at exactly 10:49 pm CDT. This is “the moment when the sun appears to cross the celestial equator while tilting towards from the observer.” (Wikionary) Who knew? The equinox (an awesome Scrabble word, by…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
Contentment
Nine Requisites for Contented Living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough…
Supply
(From my Journal dated 5/8/18) Jenna was invited to go to Champaign over Memorial Day weekend to play bridge with some of her long-time friends. She agreed to go, figuring it would cost about $300. I felt that it was something she really should do, but with property taxes just around the corner, knew I…
Sunrise
It was not quite 6 AM that Sunday, but I was already awake (and not just because Hunter was calling outside my door). I was reading in the living room when brightness in the east caught my eye. The sunrise was sending a beautiful herald of dawn. For many minutes the color grew, filling first…
Someone You Should Know:
Brother Lawrence Notes and Quotes Lord of all pots and pans and things, make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates! Nicholas Herman was born in 1611. Deep poverty led him to join the army for the guarantee of daily food and a small wage. During that time he had a…
Practicing What I Preach
Last week I wrote about my frantic worries about Jury duty. I said I wanted to remember to pray before panicking. It is just possible that I am learning. On Thursday I left home at the regular time, thinking I would be early. I like early. But with fresh snow and the roads not well…
Anticipation
A week ago today I was all kinds of excited. I was to report the next day for jury duty! It was Grand Jury and my number was 8. Unless I messed up, I’d be chosen! Inside I was jumping up and down, saying “Yippee!” (I know. Most people hate the idea of jury duty….
Impossible?
This picture caught my eye. What seems more impossible than a flower growing in concrete? Yet, there it is. It didn’t think about it or worry about it. It just grew. “We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” Chuck Swindoll “Most of the important things in the…
Critter Feeding
Lord, all living things depend on you. You give them food at the right time.You give it, and they eat it. They are filled with good food from your open hands. Psalm 104:27-28 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) Squirrels visit the birdfeeders, too; we have a squirrel-baffle attached to prevent easy access, though. But one particularly enterprising squirrel invented…
A Memory
One of my earliest memories is in my grandparents’ apartment. I was maybe 3 years old, swinging my feet into the air between furniture and enjoying myself thoroughly. “Be careful,” cautioned my grandfather. “You might break something.” Do 3-year-olds ever listen? But then my hand slipped – and something broke. I ran to burrow into…