Simple Joys

People spend massive amounts of time and money to obtain moments of bliss. After the truth knocks on our hearts for long enough, and after we note that our fleeting memories evaporate quickly, we attend to His knocking and answer. This day, I chose to stay home and make soup while delighting in Truth’s holy…

Collecting Treasures

The tax collector recorded a jewel. Matthew 6:19-21 highlights a motivation for living a life of simplicity. Our Father highly recommends that we invest in eternal treasures. The treasure of time spent with Him, trusting Him, thanking Him and talking with Him. God points out that our heart follows our passions. When we choose to VALUE…

Senior Moments

Those who have crossed 70 & are headed towards 80 years of life have wisdom to share. A man shared his senority views: After loving my parents, my siblings, my spouse, my children and my friends, I now obey God and love others and myself as He does. Totally unconditionally. I have realized that I…

Winter Frost

Feeling the freeze? Yes, but I’m keeping my fire burning! The Holy Spirit equips us, and He prepares all who seek Him with gifts and sticks. What? He keeps us not only warm, but blazing hot as long as we do our part. He convicts us with a prick that we gladly respond to with…

Heed His Call

We tend to hope that we please others way more than we trust that God loves us. “Do they like me or approve of my passion?” Jeremiah was hated by many and he wrote something worth clinging to. “I am radiant with joy over the goodness of the Lord. And my life is like a…

Giants Among Us

A giant is not green or jolly. A giant in the Bible is all about creating folly. Wikipedia suggests that the giants of the Bible known as Nephilim are mysterious beings or people who are large and strong. The Hebrew word Nephilim is translated as giants. In the text of Genesis 6, the word is also…

Transformed

We are all in process of becoming. Each day we have the free choice to remain as we have always been, the comfortable, ordinary person that is settled in our accustomed way — or to be transformed into a new extraordinary being of radiant light. This remarkable review of “Mere Christianity” a book written by…

Gift a Hug

Pass out hugs today, at each of your casual encounters. It’s a free gift that does not require wrapping. At weddings, birthdays, the subway, or at the grocery store just ask. “Can I give you a hug?” People usually say yes without knowing all the benefits. The average length of a hug between two people…

In the Spirit

Charles Spurgeon on the fruit of the Spirit of God, and what is not. “When the Spirit of truth is come, He pours daylight into the darkness, and leads us into all truth. He does not merely show the truth, but He leads us into it, so that we stand within it, and rejoice in…

Tent Tales

Many folks go camping to get away, to refresh, to spend time in nature. Guess who set the stage for great encounters? Yep, God Himself! Back in the 50’s there was a well known radio host/comedian/song writer in Hollywood named Stuart Hamblen. Stuart was known in downtown Los Angeles for his drinking, joking around, and…