But One Life to Live
Following on yesterday’s post, I’ve continued pondering the “newness” we hear about in the bible. It’s a different kind of new. The Message version of the Bible is not the version I use for my studies but I almost always read it along with my other favorite translations. I have read this chapter about twenty
Proverbs 18:12-13 Before destruction a man’s heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame. Words. Mercy. A power to be reckoned with. These verses remind me of the source of our words – again – our hearts. I get lazy so
2 Corinthians 3:18 AMP But, we all, with unveiled face beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are transformed into the same image from glory to glory, even as from the Lord the Spirit. I captured this image one morning down at the boat launch near my home. The sun was
Isaiah 11:6-9 Wolves will live with lambs. Leopards will lie down with goats. Calves and lions will eat together. And little children will lead them around. Cows will eat with bears. Their little ones will lie down together. And lions will eat straw like oxen. A baby will play near a hole where cobras live.
Proverbs 3:3 NIrV Don’t let love and truth ever leave you. Tie them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart. “Man, everything else comes with instructions, I sure wish there was an instruction manual on how to raise kids. I sure wish I had an instruction manual on how to survive
Matthew 6:8-15 NIrV Your Father knows what you need even before you ask him. “This is how you should pray. “ ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be honored. May your kingdom come. May what you want to happen be done on earth as it is done in heaven. Give us today our daily bread.
Revelation 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away. Grieving is a place. I have spent a lot of time hanging out there, like an ill person spends time in
Walking through the swamps of Florida one day, my friend and I came upon this boardwalk. Every single time I come to a path so narrowly directing the next part of my journey, I pause, reminded I do not know what lies ahead. What IS around the next turn? Sitting in waiting rooms recently, I
• I’ve always been fascinated with the beauty of sunflowers. So many things about them connect me to God, the Creator of all living. I am reminded of His Light when I see the transparency of the petals allowing it to penetrate. These flowers lift their faces up to the sun to the source