Thankful for the Shepherd

I read two scriptures from two different books this morning and both mentioned sheep. You may call things like that coincidence. I call it providence. Psalm 100:3 says “Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of...

Thankfulness

We are in the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States. A day that is a national holiday and filled with parades, too much food, and football. Starting on Thanksgiving evening (or very, very early on Friday morning) the Black Friday sales begin. I have always...

For no Words of God Will Ever Fail

There are times when words are spoken that we doubt the intention behind them, whether or not the meaning that was spoken is true, or if we can believe them. Most of the time we doubt because we find it hard to believe the words inside of ourselves. The these precious...

What Will You Tell?

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Those words are part of Mary Oliver’s poem Sometimes. She was known drawing inspiration for her poetry from nature; and it was said she had a lifelong passion for “solitary walks in the...

God Is In The Silence

The Lord said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was...