A friend and I were visiting yesterday. She was feeling discouraged and sad because of some things over which she had no control. She was worried but she is a Christian and was reminding herself that God knows all about her troubles. We all feel overwhelmed sometimes and have no idea which way to turn […]
May 29, 2013
Miniature Mysteries
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God’s Small World God made a tiny, shiny world In blades of grass and flowers, Where crickets creep and spiders spin And dewdrops fall in showers. And in this small, this crawly world Are secrets and surprises. The caterpillars creeping here Wear summertime disguises. No one but God could think of it; I don’t know […]
May 5, 2013
My Grandmother’s New Testament
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My grandmother, Ma Latty, has been gone 55 years. Her New Testament is far older than that. And the words it contains are much, much older but they still endure. The Old and New Testaments are like bedrock. People come and go but bedrock endures. It is lasting. It never changes, and it is trustworthy […]
Apr 24, 2013
A Meandering Mind
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FREE EBOOK ON AMAZON Remember that today and tomorrow you can download Grave Shift for your Kindle free of charge. I think that, instead of “musings”, this blog could aptly be called “meanderings” because my mind is going in four different directions this morning. For one thing, the cold snap did materialize and all I […]
Apr 17, 2013
The Mystery of Manaen
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As I prepared for next week’s women’s Bible study at church, I came across an intriguing name: Manaen. As far as I know, this man is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible except in Acts 13. Scripture says he was brought up with Herod Antipas. Whoa! This man, a believer in Christ, was a childhood […]
