Sunday, January 31st, 2010

Low Visibility, High Honor

“I hope that we’re going to do more in heaven than just sit on a cloud and play a harp—forever and ever!”
I have heard people say things like that, but if that is “all” I’m doing on that side of eternity, then heaven will be, well, HEAVEN to me!
Making music to the Lord is a [...]

Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

Contagious

To a single dolphin
something happened, some occasion worthy
of rejoicing, and the dolphin
leaped in celebration, taking
off in fluid motion, spinning, letting
water-breezes tickle, tasting
air in arc of soaring.
Soon another dolphin came
to join the celebration,
and their tandem leap drew
a double rainbow
while confetti-drops announced
an open invitation.
Many came; the party multiplied
at every leap, the dolphins all
jumping arches of fireworks
streaming down, [...]

Sunday, January 10th, 2010

Greater Than

And the people relied on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 32:8b
What words? These are people pursued and harrassed by Sennacherib, king of an unthinkably ruthless nation. King Sennacherib of Assyria has defeated everyone else—everyone—and Judah is next. What are Hezekiah’s words that they would have such power to [...]

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Food-Love

The realization came while preparing a Thai curry chicken dish: I love my knives. I hold my knives in such high regard that I name them. Because it came from Japan, my cleaver is “Aiko.” From taking college Japanese (fourteen years ago), I have a vague feeling that “ai” means love, and [...]

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Cedar-Tree Encouragement

(The first of a series on Body Life)
1 Samuel 5:11-12
Then Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David with cedar trees and carpenters and stonemasons; and they built a house for David. And David realized that the LORD had established him as king over Israel, and that He had exalted his kingdom for the [...]