Paris, France, May 2023 Psalm 65: 5-8 You answer us with awesome and righteous deeds, God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas, who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength, who stilled the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and... Continue Reading →
Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2023 Jeremiah 17:7-8: But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes;its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year... Continue Reading →
Bloganuary writing promptWhat is your favorite animal?View all responses As a child, I loved the story of the Hare and the Tortoise by Aesop. You think the tortoise has no chance to win, but you keep reading. When the tortoise won, I rejoiced because I don't like proud people or hares. I liked how the... Continue Reading →
Hebrews 10: 23-25 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.... Continue Reading →
Luke 8: 40-48 As Jesus was on his way, the crowds almost crushed him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. “Who touched me?” Jesus asked. When they all denied it,... Continue Reading →
Archie leaped into the air and grabbed at it with fervor, and he hung on to the end of the chain with every ounce of his energy. It hadn't registered with him that one day as he swung from the old tree swing, the spike holding it to the tree might break and send him... Continue Reading →
A fountain in Corbevoie, a suburb of Paris, France, May 2023 Isaiah 7:9 “Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm.” When King Ahaz of Judah learned that the two kings of Syria and Israel were planning to attack Jerusalem, he and his people were scared, trembling “like trees shaking in a... Continue Reading →
Statue in Porto, Portugal dedicated to the men who go to sea and their families John 5: 5-9 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?”... Continue Reading →
Patched up in one place, But still dealing with so much. Will land like a cat. Written for RonovanWrites Weekly Haiku Poetry Prompt Challenge #452: Land and patch.
I was having a wonderful Mother's Day, and I was thinking of the blogs I would be able to write and post now that all of my college courses were done for this academic year. Then, out of nowhere came a severe abdominal pain, one that I had come to fear. I first decided that... Continue Reading →
Help from Heaven 