Anyone who has young granddaughters, like yours truly, understands the proverb, “All is not gold that glitters.” After an afternoon with my three, one is likely to find glitter on the carpet, on the furniture, and in one’s hair. We need to be careful in our lives not to be merely glitter — pious in…
Month: November 2015
Old Clothes
Suzy threw out one of my favorite T-shirts yesterday. If she has her way a couple of old golf shirts will meet the same fate. Just when my clothes start to get comfortable, add a few holes, and get a little threadbare, she thinks they need a new home. Friends are like clothes. New ones…
Abundance
“For all of them contributed out of their abundance; but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had all, she had to live on.” Mark 12:38-44 Many read this passage as being about giving to the Church. The story of the widow’s offering certainly lends itself to that interpretation. But, Jesus…
Rest Thee
Grandma Danny’s life was not all peaches and cream. She spent weeks and months in the hospital with her son, Suzy’s Uncle Wayne, who was a brilliant chemist but struck with crippling and life-threatening arthritis. Danny tucked in her Bible a letter from her daughter Admyth who thought the verses of a song Suzy’s Mom…
Prayer/Meditation
Whether your morning quiet time takes the form of Prayer or Meditation it offers multiple benefits. We turn aside from an unquiet world, seeking rest for our spirit, and light for our thoughts. We bring our wounds to be healed, our hopes to be renewed, and our better selves to be quickened. We are lifted…