Restoration: repairing, returning, bringing back or reinstating
While the Five-Minute Friday site is down and in the process of restoration, this week I created my own one-word writing prompt: Restoration. Keith and I have had a consideration amount of restoration going on this summer—all opportunities to repair, return, bring...
On perception: human ability versus divine understanding
Perception is the ability to see, hear, or become aware of something through the senses, a way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something, an intuitive understanding and insight. Understanding of this world and very limited at that. Compared to...
Dear LORD, please show us and guide us on Your path
“Thank you, LORD, for the missions you’ve given us and the skills to accomplish them, please show us and guide us on your path.” Every day, Keith and I pray before we eat our main meal, prayers of adoration, confession, thanksgiving, and supplication: ACTS, to...
The perhaps of uncertainty, possible certainty, an conditional hope
Last week, I wrote about transformation, saying, “Perhaps the most dramatic transformation story in the Bible is Saul’s Road to Damascus experience: struck blind by a heavenly light after hearing the voice of Jesus, this devout persecutor of Christians...
Transform: cucumbers, God’s power in the world, minds, lives
My cucumbers were failing to transform. Lots of vine growth and blossoms, but only one cucumber so far. And, I’ve been told, if you can’t grow cucumbers, you might as well give up gardening. Well, I am not much of a gardener but do like growing things. So, to...
Wind at your back, sun on your face, rain on your fields
May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again may God hold you in the hollow of His hand. Irish Blessing I purchased a copy of this...