“My husband and my brother in law were in the middle of the driveway yelling at each other!” My friend is telling me about her Thanksgiving dinner… “My brother-in-law starts jumping around with his hands up like a prize fighter.” “Then he socks my husband on the jaw, gets in his car […]
Love
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For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Matthew 6:20-21 The car stops suddenly in front of the house… A stranger hurries up the driveway… “Those are my rocks,” she says. “I’ll just take them.” The homeowner looks confused. “Oh. I forget to tell you. My son used […]
I’m buying your Christmas gift today. I have no idea what you want… And even less idea what you actually need. But I am buying your Christmas gift today. The stores are ready for me. They have the perfect gifts… Prepackaged gifts… Ready-to-buy gifts… Gifts ready to play a starring role at […]
She runs down the sidewalk… Swings open the gate… The gate with the metal dog on top… And dashes across the alley… To Granny’s house… To Pops’ house. She has toys there… And dollies… And Granny… And Pops. Decades pass … She moves hundreds of miles away. When she visits… Her […]
An unseen force pulls him through the crowd… Hundreds of people move in all directions in the busy lobby… He stands out above them all. Literally. He is nearly seven feet tall. His body leans forward, his arm stretches down toward the unseen source of his propulsion. Curious to see what great […]
“What’s new?” A simple question asked in the produce aisle… I struggle to find an answer. “What’s new?” he asks again. We haven’t seen each other for a long time. Now here we are in the grocery store… Separated by our shopping carts… And all that has happened since last […]
How should we live together as Christian families? How do we honor God in our families? How do we share God’s love in our families and beyond? Read what the Bible says about love-and family
My birthday… FaceBook says I have lots of messages… People call to say Happy Birthday… Even the Google search page says “Happy Birthday” when I click on it… But I am really waiting for my wife’s present… She gives good presents. She walks toward me holding a small bag… A […]
God creates beauty … His Beauty is all around us… Knowing that God creates Beauty leads to questions … Here are 3 questions… Question 1: If God creates beauty … Why aren’t we all beautiful? Maybe we are… …The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward […]
Copper and silver and gold… Oil and watercolor and charcoal… A local art fair… Jewelry makers bring the silver and gold and copper… Artists the water colors and acrylics and oils and charcoal… Each using their medium to create portraits and landscapes and jewelry… Suddenly I see an artist whose medium speaks […]