Cosmos! Vastness … Heavens declaring the glory of God …. Wonder … Magnificence … Mind boggling awe … Playful grace … Awesome power … I'm glad to live here too … wherever we are … centered in His love! Continue reading

Profundities – Number 1 If I ever write a book of profound thoughts, it will be a collection of deep thinking collected in unlikely places like the thought that passed through my hollow, shallow brain the other day in the… Continue reading

Deep thoughts … I have them … They are quite deep … And, they are covered with hard pan … Many pounds … tons of hard pan … I need something stronger than a shovel to get to them …… Continue reading

My tongue became en-lodged in my cheek in a recent posting … It took some doing, but … We were able to extract it … Though still a bit sore … And gravitating toward the cheek … I think it… Continue reading

What does it mean "to bless?" How do we bless? Here is an acronym for what it might mean for us to bless others. B = Being. We first bless by being who and what we are. It is our… Continue reading

We are called to pray, not just for our friends or allies, but for all people. That call embraces an open-ended expectancy that is divorced from agenda and most preconceptions and is biased toward reconciling love. Relief print of Daniel's prayer… Continue reading

  When I first wrote and posted this article, I was unaware of the dance contest phenomena such as "Dancing with the Stars" that held so many in such a tight grip of interest. I would pass through the living… Continue reading

Psalm 16:1 – Keep me safe, O God, for in you I take refuge. Never separate the two parts of this prayer or you will diffuse its power. The first part is a request made in faith. The second is… Continue reading

  An Optimist Reads the Book of Ecclesiastes Anything can be meaningless if we are not connected with meaning. That was the dilemma of Solomon as he reflected on his life journey. Meaningless work is not satisfying work. The grief… Continue reading

Psalm 18:1-2 – I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation,… Continue reading