Devotion
Stubbornness
Read: Isaiah 30:1-18 In returning and rest you shall be saved. -Isaiah 30:15 Seatbelts save lives. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, front seat occupants who use their seatbelts reduce their risk of death by 45 percent. Yet only 10 to 15 percent of people buckled up before laws were passed in the […]
Commitment
Most people can be placed in one of two categories – they either say a lot and do little, or they say little and do a lot. No doubt we all know people who give undertakings or make promises, but when the crunch comes they let us down. But there are those who, without fuss, […]
Penniless (A Poem)
("Everyone else gave what they didn’t need. But she is very poor and gave everything she had. Now she doesn’t have a cent to live on." Mark 12:44) limelight sought out the bigpockets in dandy suits– double breasted, silk and linen, with tasteful ties– centerstage focused on the bigfaiths with bragging rights– double tongued, proper […]
Modern Religion – Idolatrous?
(A meditation inspired by a tape I’ve just heard of some retreat-teaching by the American Franciscan Richard Rohr)… Jesus’ main teaching-emphasis, ‘The Kingdom’ is about priorities/idolatries, absolutes/relatives. The first commandment forbade idols, but the institution of religion itself can be idolatrous if we make an absolute out of it. Bede Griffiths, the English Benedictine who […]
Gossip
A woman repeated a bit of gossip about a neighbor. Within a few days the whole community knew the story. The person it concerned was deeply hurt and offended. Later the woman responsible for spreading the rumor learned that it was completely untrue. She was very sorry and went to a wise old sage to […]
The Father Of Lies
He [the devil] was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature; for he is a liar, and the father of lies (John 8:44). Alyce was one of the most pathetic-looking young women […]
Death And Dying
FEAR OR FAITH? Read: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20 Jesus Christ…has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. -2 Timothy 1:10 You may have never heard the name of Sir Isaiah Berlin. When he died in 1997, Arthur Schlesinger eulogized him in Newsweek as "very likely the most sparkling man of the […]
Soulfriend
http://www.anamchara.com/celtic/anamchara.htm The Anamchara Anamchara (pronounced "ahn-im-KAR-uh") is an Irish word meaning "soul friend." Anam means "soul" or "spirit," while chara means "friend." According to Kenneth Leech, "Certainly, every Celtic chief had his counselor or druid at his court, and his ministry included incantations, fortune-telling and spells . . . the Celtic church saints inherited much […]
Hearing Voices
The voice of the LORD is powerful, the voice of the LORD is majestic (Psalm 29:4). The concept of hearing "voices" is openly espoused in the secular media. The main character in the popular movie Field of Dreams hears an inner voice while standing in his cornfield at night. It’s loud, direct and very spooky! […]
Sparrows
Just outside our kitchen window we have a bird feeding platform and leading up to the platform is a picket fence. I cannot say that we have attracted any exotic birds yet but we are still hoping. Waiting for the breadcrumbs and seed at breakfast time are a dozen or so greedy sparrows. When they […]
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