The Horse
Do you give the horse his strength or clothe his neck with a flowing mane? Do you make him leap like a locust, striking terror with his proud snorting? He paws fiercely, rejoicing in his strength, and...
View ArticlePoor in Spirit
“Blessed are the poor in spirit,for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “~ Matthew 5:3. Poor in spirit? What does that mean? It’s not so much as being poor literally or that can be the case, but it’s a...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Brides
“Today, if you hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in Meribah, as you did that day at Massah in the desert. Where your fathers tested and tried me, though they had seen what I did. For...
View ArticleRemember Who’s You Are
What if no one cared enough to search for something or someone precious? What if they had gotten so fed up no matter what happened they were going to give up and write off? The older brother in the...
View ArticleNaomi and Ruth: Unflinching Loyalty
How different were these two? Jew and gentile, old and young, believer and unbeliever till Ruth made her passionate and endearing pledge. “Please don’t tell me to leave you. Where you go I will go, and...
View ArticleSeeking His Face
“Yet you have not called on me, Jacob, you have not wearied yourselves for me, Israel.” ~Isaiah 43:22 What does this mean? I’ve been thinking about this verse the past couple of days and a couple of...
View ArticleHow Great Thou Art
O Lord my God, When I in awesome wonder, Consider all the worlds Thy Hands have made; I see the stars, I hear the rolling thunder, Thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, My...
View ArticleMary, Mother of Jesus
We all know who Mary is, the virgin maid chosen to bear the Son of God. Yes she’s that, but I want to talk about her as a human being, not as the ‘pure as glass Sue’ that she’s been made out to be....
View ArticleLiving in the Moment
I slept, but my heart was awake, when I heard my lover knocking and calling: “Open to me, my treasure, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of...
View ArticleWounds and Scars
If someone asks, ‘What are these wounds on your body?’ they will answer, ‘The wounds I was given at the house of my friends.’ Zechariah 13:6 Funny, you never really think of your friends betraying...
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