Just finished listening to Matthew in the New Living Translation. Listening to the bible is a valuable experience because we hear the words the way most of the early Jews and Christians heard them – orally. Switching translations jars our… Continue reading

What is this place of which I hear the mournful, longing songs? What is this time that cannot be measured? Where is this Jordan? I am thirsty for its water. I am hot and tired and need to bathe in… Continue reading

Let us advance toward the overwhelming mystery, swim in its fluid enveloping, drown in its wonder, and find that we can breath underwater. Mystery is the essence of wonder and worship. We stand amazed in the Presence. The consuming heaviness… Continue reading

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The Word Today Is “Today” What’s in a day?This DayToday What is in a book?The book.The Torah, Law, measuring stick of life. The reading of the prophetic word in scripture from David to Ezra and Nehemiah to Jesus to us… Continue reading

"Immediately, I Conferred Not …" “ But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: For I will… Continue reading

On this day in 1890 – Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days. She was a trailblazer! Her real name was Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (born Elizabeth Jane Cochran. She took her pen name from Stephen Foster's song. She… Continue reading

There is intensity in the beauty of the common place.' There is concentrated grace in the focused moment. There is love bundled and rising in the most mundane. There in loveliness in the uncritical view. Sometimes we capture it with… Continue reading