Wishing you Mud and Spit

For weeks, the phrase “Here’s to mud in your eye,”  kept flooding my mind. Weird, huh? Because it wouldn’t stop rolling up against my cranium, I finally stopped and looked up the meaning.

My Daughter’s Birthday

For the last few years in the months of January and February, we have been blessed to be in Cyprus where our daughter is on staff with a ministry. Yesterday was her birthday. I am so happy that we could spend time together on this special day. This year is special because Wayne’s sister, brother-in-love,…

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I Stopped the Movie and Wept

We have had a couple of gray and bone-chilly days here by the sea. I don’t mind. The ocean is a different place when the weather is foul. It is still awesome and captivating, but somehow a rolling amount of immeasurable water with fathomless power is scarier and more on-the-edge of civilized life when the…

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These Words are Chasing me Around the Room

Life presses on around us, and we are well aware of it. Still we are trying to slow it down for these few days in Cyprus, waiting on God at our “Bethel.” He is speaking too! And we take joy in all His words as they fall deep into our hearts. We have had glorious…

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Bethel

The Hebrew name, Bethel, comes from two words: Beit meaning “house” and El meaning “God.” As a compound word, Bethel becomes “House of God.” This word has become so popular over the years that it almost seems like an English word now. Many churches or ministries have used it to title their calling or vision….

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Sarah Got it Right!

In defending herself recently, Sarah Palin used the term “blood libel” to describe the pointed accusations by a few politicians and journalists that she—and other conservations with like minds—are responsible for the shocking and sad shooting rampage in Tucson, Arizona last weekend. “Blood libels” in Jewish history is a graphic term filled with meaning for…

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