Consider the Lilies

Category: God

  • Hardly Overlooked

    Do you wonder if you are receiving the same blessings from God that everyone around you seems to be receiving? Every first Sunday of the month is our church’s designated “communion Sunday.” As one of the deacons preparing and serving communion, I am aware of the importance of not running out of the elements –…

  • A lamb’s place

    I love analogies, especially biblical ones, because they give me a picture that sticks with me.  I have found that the Bible is full of analogies – word pictures – from old testament to new, and, more than just flowery poetry, they communicate deeply, to the heart.  Sometimes biblical analogies and the events of life…

  • What’s the password?

    What’s the password?

    It used to be a silly game we played as kids..  Remember, pretending to not let someone in until they gave us the password?  Of course, they didn’t know the password, it wasn’t a real password, and the object of the game was just to laugh at the person trying to think up a good…

  • Five months later

    I didn’t know I would leave this blog for five months.  But, it makes sense, as I have been busy navigating a new job.  Anyone who knows corporate America needs no other explanation.  Corporate life demands focus and intensity, and leaves little room for creativity.  It offers money but not spiritual riches, so I’m comfortable,…

  • Recognizing the Source

    It’s that quality of curiosity that sparks questions like, “where did you get that?” In junior high, it wasn’t enough to admire one of my friend’s outfits…I had to know where it came from.  A pair of designer jeans, purchased in a cool (and more expensive) store like Mickey Finn’s, held more value for me…

  • Chicken Soup Story

    It’s easier to hear God’s voice and know you’re in His plan when “the planets align.”  That is, when parallel, unrelated events occur simultaneously and fit together so perfectly that it had to have been orchestrated, it couldn’t just happen. I had something like that happen today.  It all started with an organic chicken sale…

  • A ‘journey’ of clicks to thoughts about Lent

    Following links around the internet isn’t always a pointless search. Here’s how I found this great material.  I wonder, is the journey important anymore?  Or just the destination? If it is…I joined Twitter.  Then I looked up and followed Cornerstone University (because they have an online ESL program that I’m interested in.)  They posted a…

  • What about…tomorrow?

    “The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God’s care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything.” – C.S. Lewis…