I hear a blue jay. It’s not near and I can’t see it, but I know its voice. And there is a crow, too. I’ve heard robins, and cardinals and chickadees from my recliner. I close my eyes and enjoy the songs. Like many people, I bird-watch. But birds can be hard to spot. They…
Category: God Sightings
Seeing God in the Everyday
Someone You Should Know…
Rachel Held Evans Rachel Held Evans was an American Christian columnist, blogger and author. She died on May 4, 2019, at the age of 37, leaving behind a husband, 2 children, and 4 books, which I find well written and worth reading. Here are some quotes: “Faith isn’t about having everything figured out ahead of…
Body Life
My left arm hurts; I think I slept on it wrong. (My feet say they are fine, thank you. The arm doesn’t worry them; they just carry on.) There is a twinge in my arm when I pick stuff up. (My knees don’t have problems with my arm: they pay no attention to it.) My…
Selichot
Sundown on Saturday, September 21, begins the Jewish custom of Selichot, communal prayers for Divine forgiveness, said during the High Holiday season or on Jewish fast days. The word, Selichot (Hebrew: סליחות) means ‘sorry/forgiveness prayers’. Selichot are recited from the Sunday before the Jewish New Year until the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur). Selichot are…
Anger
It was a busy morning, with a mountain of laundry ahead of me. As I sorted clothes, I heard a scream from the bedroom. The 2-year-old had bitten the 4-year-old! Swift justice was applied to the seat of the problem. And an angry mother returned to her task. A few minutes later, the 2-year-old appeared…
Read a Book Day
A READING ADVENTURE If all yesterday’s good reasons for picking up a book weren’t enough, I am learning (again!) that God speaks to me through everything I read, not just through the Bible. The day the Internet went down (August 28), I picked up a book to read, partly because I’d been meaning to, partly…
Just Think…
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. – – Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), though famous for his scientific achievements in astronomy, mathematics, and physics, and…
Down!
The internet is down! The error message says someone may be trying to break in! Yikes! I’m feeling vulnerable and a little scared. I think about waiting until Jenna gets up and letting her figure it out. But I decide that I am a fully capable adult and can handle it myself. I call AT&T….
Someone You Should Know…
Mother Teresa Mother Teresa was born on August 26, 1910, in Skopje, the current capital of the Republic of Macedonia. To read more of her story go to https://www.biography.com/religious-figure/mother-teresaHere are some quotes attributed to her: “People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior…
Thoughts on Stress
From my journal dated November 16, 1994, during my battle with Chronic Fatigue. I watched a video with my son last week. It was for his Psychology class and was about stress. The film mentioned that stress is caused by “lack of control” and “lack of predictability.” While no one on this earth has complete…