Wait Expectantly

   I mentioned last week that I’m a goal setter.  I don’t do resolutions, but I try to prayerfully set goals for areas of my life.  I start with Spiritual goals because I want all the others to be filtered through what I believe Jesus wants.  Sometimes it takes several days into the new year before…

Thinkin’ on the names given to Jesus by Isaiah, Luke, the angels, God.  I’ve always loved the songs that proclaim those names.  However,  back in the 80’s,  the kids at our church did a kids Christmas musical called “The Late Great Potentate”.  I loved everything about that musical and my kids were too little to…

Thinkin’ today about Souvenirs.   As a kid in the LATE 50’s,  I had a charm bracelet and collected a charm everywhere we vacationed.  Later I collected little figurines and finally ticket stubs, brochures and all manner of memorabilia.  Recently, I have collected artwork from my travels,  usually bought from a street vendor.    My seven…

    Twelve for Dinner       A few years ago, our church hosted a “walk to Calvary”. We paraded into Jerusalem waving our “palm” branches. Our path took us through several scenes, ending at an empty garden tomb. At one point, we stopped in the upper room to celebrate Passover. The table had paper placemats…

        Over the years, I’ve heard many sermons from Ezekiel 37,  the dry bones chapter.  It’s the most popular content for sermons from the book of Ezekiel.  Ezekiel is a difficult book to understand with all the imagery, metaphors, and similes.  This time,  however,  a different portion stood out to me.  In…

    According to the Barna Group, 72% of women say they have too much stress in their lives,  more than half of all moms say they are overcommitted.  This was BEFORE our current plague outbreak.  Let’s face it,  life is overwhelming,  especially now.     We have been asked to ‘work from home,  school your children at…