It has been some months now since I have written about the passing of my father-in-law last December. The grieving process continues. I still cry at unexpected times, and I enjoy great pleasure in many warm memories as well. Recovering after the death of a loved one is a process. Sometimes I just sit and think, “Wow,…
Category: Faith
Healing Leaves
Today is the first full day of Sukkot. I love this Jewish holiday–the time when the family builds a “sukkah” or tent with branches on top and lives in it for eight days. It’s like camping. What child doesn’t love to sleep outside under the stars?
‘I Come to the Garden Alone’
I have beautiful memories of singing this old hymn as a child in my home church, with the lights low, a great settling of peace, and sensing the sweetness of the presence of God sweeping the sanctuary. King David wrote in the book of Psalm that God resides with those who praise Him. Any place…
Atmosphere Changers!
A few years ago, quite a few years ago, I was trying to lose a few pounds by running. I mapped out and followed a trail that sent me by a construction working crew. I chose that path because it was flat and smooth, and I could run along unimpeded and build up some steam. I did, in fact, lose some…
In Lean Times… Keep Your Heart Soft… by Giving
“Poverty” by Picasso, 1903 Although I am not a huge fan of Picasso, I do like his work during the “blue period” like the above painting. This one captures the stain, degradation, humility, and “blueness” of what poverty must be like. I say “must be like” because I have never suffered like this. I have never…
‘Didn’t Our Hearts Burn Within Us…?’
There is only one thing better than drinking a rich cup of Ethiopian coffee in the morning… That is to drink it with an Ethiopian! For the past few days we have had a dear Ethiopian friend stay with us. This morning we drank our coffee under the arbor in the backyard. The weather was so…
Promises
Promises Morning washes the lake and pier with light. Summer dwindles to sparks, smolders cold into crisp autumn days. But the sun, the sun burns no matter the season it stays, it stays… unless the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob breaks his promises to Israel.
Hope… for a Fail-Safe Future
Barack Obama is the hope that so many of us have been waiting for. A hope for a better government; a hope for better poitics; a hope for a better world. Let’s work together to get Senator Obama elected and to become the Greatest President ever!!! This quote is from Barak Hussein Obama’s website: “Americans…
Anti-Semitic T-Shirts in France
The owner and salesman of a shop in Paris has been arrested for selling T-shirts with the anti-Semitic phrase on them: “Jews forbidden from entering the park.” They are printed in both German and Polish and refer to the Nazi-era Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland. You can read the story here. France has one of…
Wasted Energy
Paris Hilton issued her own presidential campaign ad with an interesting energy plan. You can read it here. Ben Stein on Larry King Live said it was the most brilliant ad campaign he had seen in years. It made fun of both McCain and Obama but was particularly scathing toward McCain. Well, I saw it and…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 