Love never fails

Love never fails

We’ve just been focusing on the tumultuous events of Holy Week. We considered the disciples’ confusion and despair as the week came to a close with Jesus’ death on the cross. That was followed by the equally cataclysmic event of all events, the not-experienced, (not...
The ending, or a new beginning?

The ending, or a new beginning?

It may have been, as Jesus hung on the cross, that there was a near-total silence in the courts of Heaven. But, upon hearing his cry, ‘It is finished!’ there erupted cheers and shouts and fireworks and jubilant dancing. The Father’s mission of Love was just...
Beautiful Blessed Silent Saturday 

Beautiful Blessed Silent Saturday 

“For God alone my soul waits in silence.  From Him comes my salvation.  He is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken” Ps 62:1&2 ESV    After Jesus was captured, crucified and buried in the tomb, can you imagine...
What a difference a day makes!

What a difference a day makes!

How many families, rushing to the hospital after hearing from the police that there had been a terrible accident involving their daughter, would cry aloud, ‘This can’t be happening!’ Praying, ‘Please don’t let her die! She’s only 19!’ Hearts crushed. Hope barely...
Ducks all in a row

Ducks all in a row

Dominoes was a popular game at our house, first double sixes, then double twelves, then colored-pip double twelves. Somehow along the way, I heard about standing the tiles on end, one after the other, then knocking the first one into the second, and watching the whole...
Two Cups and A Proposal

Two Cups and A Proposal

     It is the 14th of Nisan 30 A.D. when Jesus, His disciples and Jews from everywhere gather in Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.  It is a festive meal to remember God’s miraculous deliverance of the Hebrews from the mighty burdensome hand...