Following Jesus every day in the everyday is sometimes a glorified housekeeping job… There are enough different uses of the word “house” in Scripture that when, as a New Testament believer, I encounter Old Testament passages about God’s house, I have to ask the Holy Spirit for understanding about what Read more…
Picking up where we left off…after some more-or-less quiet time with Jesus, an everyday event in this disciple’s life is meal planning. What in the world does meal planning have to do with following Jesus?! At the end of this “following” is a great feast! The Marriage Supper of the Read more…
The winter holiday season officially begins this week! (or so says Wikipedia). For our family, it has mostly been about food. Traditions run several generations deep, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t branching out as our family gets connected to other families. This year the menu will include chicken and Read more…
Temperatures in my neck of the woods have finally dropped low enough to think about sitting outside on the porch for breakfast or quiet time. The patio table has sported its pretty cover all summer long undisturbed, collecting fine dirt and dust, the accumulation of six months of lawn mowing, Read more…
So…I couldn’t find my dustpan. It’s the kind that is designed to clip onto the handle of the broom, so you don’t lose it… So much for that design. I had been out of town for almost two weeks. Someone else had been minding my house, and I couldn’t remember Read more…
I was listening to a CD by Graham Cooke on rest. He pointed out that the first thing God and newly-made Adam did together was to rest. I need to learn that from God…how to rest. I would have loved to see Adam and God resting together: God showing him Read more…
Sitting on the back porch, enjoying the unseasonably cool weather . . . trying to find peace. There are more things on my “to do” list than I can possibly get done! Guests coming to sleep in a guest room with no flooring and missing woodwork . . . a Read more…
I just spilled coffee on the chair and rug in my office trying to intercept a moth. Moving things to deal with the spill, I discovered a new place on the rug where the moth larvae have been feasting. The only way I know to deal with them, aside from Read more…