It’s SHROVE TUESDAY! This day gets its name from the word “shrive” meaning “to absolve” and marks the last day before the liturgical season of Lent, which is observed by an overwhelming majority of Christians during the 40 days preceding Easter. Like the Feasts of the Old Testament, it too is a prefigure of the […]
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How Beautiful Are Your Ways, Oh God!
How great are your works, O LORD! Your thoughts are very deep! – Psalm 92:5 How many are your works, LORD! In wisdom you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures. – Psalm 104:24 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! – Psalm […]
Don’t Take the Bait. Just Wait.
Psalm 16:7-9 says, “The way you counsel and correct me makes me praise you more,for your whispers in the night give me wisdom,showing me what to do next.” When I awoke this morning from my dreams with God, I realized I could not call them to mind as clearly as I always have been able […]
Prophesy to the Open Box
I can see that you are open to us, Lord. You have extended the gates of your opening to us, wide in every direction. Fathomless is what’s in store for us inside! From Thy bounty you have given. Freely, you have given. You offer of yourself more and more. Nothing do you hold back from […]
The Bathing Beauty: Bathsheba
Behold, you desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. – Psalms 51:6 Among the genealogies of Jesus is a reference to one of five women who had a remarkable impact on the Messiah’s coming. One such woman is never recognized by her own name, referred to always as […]