On the seventh day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…the seven-fold Spirit. Of all the gifts given us by our True Love, this one is the most intimate! This is the one that makes “Emmanuel” mean something! “God With Us” becomes “God Within Us” because of this gift: Read more
On the sixth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…six days of nature. Beauty. Adventure. Science. Revelation! All these are what our True Love brought us in this gift. God make the world and everything that is in it in six days…out of nothing…except the words from His Read more
On the fifth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me…five healing wounds! The wounds in His hands are to cure all the wounds we receive at the hands of others, and all those our own hands cause. The wounds in His feet are medicine for the wounds we Read more
Moses had led the nation of Israel through forty summers of blistering heat and brutal thunderstorms. He longed for his last words to them to be like the gentle rains of winter and the trickling dews of spring. Oh, how we love the tender sprouts of spring here in the Read more
I am more like Jonah than I often recognize. He sat under a volunteer vine, glad of its shade and God’s apparent favor, waiting for God to “keep His word” and destroy the city of his enemies. How quickly he had forgotten his own experience of God’s rescue of him Read more
