Psalm 47 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV) Everyone, clap your hands. Shout with joy to God!2 The Lord Most High is awesome. He is the great King over all the earth. Shout with joy? Are you kidding? We are barely holding on these days. We are afraid. But fear makes us forget Who is in charge: not any virus, illness…
Category: A Faith in Process
Notes from the Journey
Just a Duck
There was wild frenzy at the feeders, birds flying into the patio doors in terror. White downy feathers littered the ground. The hawk had hunted successfully. Sad, I thought as I went about my business. Some time later, though, I saw a mallard duck outside, looking around and quacking quietly to herself. Was that Weeve?…
Traveling Right
Some years ago, when such things still happened, we were invited to my daughter’s friends’ house for Easter dinner. I had a vague idea of where they lived, but no knowledge of the route. I didn’t need to know, I told myself. I could just look out the window and enjoy the ride. We hadn’t…
Easter Candy
Q: Why is there no such organization as Chocoholics Anonymous?A: Because no one wants to quit. Q: What’s the difference between a candy bar and a rotten banana?A: You don’t know? Good. Then you eat the banana.
Lucky Dog…
(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…
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…