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FIRE IN MY BONES

I have a strange question for you. Do you have fire in your bones? Do you know the prophet Jeremiah did? It is a passage I’ve always found relatable, but first let me share a Scripture I ran across:

Let the prophet who has a dream recount the dream, but let the one who has my word speak it faithfully. For what has straw to do with grain?” declares the Lord. “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? “Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me.  –Jeremiah 23:28-30  (NIV)

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AN INVITATION

It was a beautiful sunny fall afternoon as I headed for a long-awaited weekend retreat at one of my holy places. How grateful I am for this place and the people who minister there who are family to me. After a two-year break from a weekend retreat because of the pandemic, it was extra special to be back.

Toward the end of my ride there, I started playing random songs from the 1,019 songs on the flash drive in my car. The last three songs I let play consecutively. The final song that played as I pulled into the retreat center was “Be Still.” Continue reading “AN INVITATION”

CHILDLIKE FAITH

Advent provides the perfect opportunity to prepare our hearts and minds to celebrate the greatest gift of all time, the birth of Jesus, our Lord and Savior, who came to earth for us.

I have a challenge for you this week.  Are you ready?

Try to view the Advent and Christmas season through the lens of childlike faith! Continue reading “CHILDLIKE FAITH”

LESSONS FROM THE BIRDS OF THE AIR

Ever since mid-February this year, on the days when the weather permits here in the Northeast, I try to get out and go for a walk outside to get some fresh air.  I believe it was towards the end of February when I noticed what appeared to me to be a huge population of robins this year!  There were lots of robins gathered in yards not just a single one or two.

The first thought I was reminded of with seeing these birds so early in the season was about “the birds of the air.”

 

More recently what I have noticed on my walks is when I look up in the sky there are so many, what I am assuming are some kind of hawk, in one area just soaring around the sky.

The thought that always comes to my mind when I observe this scene, especially with seeing their wings outstretched soaring, is about “under the shadow of His wings.” Continue reading “LESSONS FROM THE BIRDS OF THE AIR”