It’s a new year and a new day dawns. I love a new year for all it represents: the excitement of ringing out the old and welcoming the new, the wonder of where I’ll go and what I’ll do. Will a dream be fulfilled this year? It’s a time to…
Working in my flower garden, I wanted to make room for a beautiful birdbath I purchased. A large, well-established Hosta was smack dab in the perfect place for the birdbath. Well, I made up my mind right then and there that the “in my way” Hosta would be relocated a…
The walls of Jericho seemed indestructible. God gave them instructions as the Israelites stared up at those fortified walls. He didn’t tell them to go up and storm the city; that would have been a suicide mission. Instead, they were directed to walk daily around the city for seven days.…
Growing up going to Sunday School, I remember being taught that the shortest verse in the Bible was found in John 11:35, “Jesus wept.” When called upon to recite Scripture, I always had that one in my memory bank! But there is so much meaning and depth in those two…
“This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 Happy New Year to all of you who have been so faithful in reading these things that the Lord has laid upon my heart. I pray that this will be a…
“Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus” Philippians 3:13-14. As…
“Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation.” Psalm 68:19 Count your blessings, name then one by one; Count your blessings, see what God hath done; Count your blessings, name them one by one; Count your many blessings, see what God hath…
“For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.” Psalm 137:13-14 When our family gets together for Christmas, one tradition that we have had for years is doing…
“He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.” Revelation 21:7 This week between Christmas and New Year’s Day is a suitable time to finish some projects that we started during the year. Every year I read the Bible from…