And a cherry on top

And a cherry on top

There’s a French saying that, translated, says, “One tastes first with one’s eyes.” That’s probablywhy food is presented so artfully in France – as a ‘feast for the eyes.’ (I must say, it makes onehungry just looking at it). All that attention to perfection is,...
 Somebody, open the window!

 Somebody, open the window!

I thought there’d been a mistake. We’d ordered, online, a latex foam mattress, but what came was shrink-wrapped and rolled up in a box so small I was sure the company had sent the wrong thing. And it weighed 80 pounds! Opening the box, I saw this weird-looking, heavy...
The God Who Plays*

The God Who Plays*

Author, Jill Weber, refers to God, in one of her books, as Jehovah Sneaky. She thinks He is so aware of her skittish tendency to shy away from Divine Encounters that he lies (lovingly, of course!) in wait and delights in ‘ambushing’ her in moments when she’s...
A Tale of Two Lives

A Tale of Two Lives

A writing assignment is given to two classrooms of nine-year-olds in two very different locations. It is to describe what is great about where they live, what they do, what they eat, etc. The essays will be sent to schools in foreign countries to educate students...
Can you feel the love?

Can you feel the love?

‘rote’ – the use of memory usually with little intelligence; routine or  repetition carried out mechanically or unthinkingly; a joyless sense of order. It’s disturbing, to say the least, if our Bible knowledge has been imparted according to the above...