Consider the Lilies

Category: God

  • Fireworks

    Have you stopped to consider the glorious display of fireworks that occurs every October?  Just like the month of July, when the 4th holiday sparks off a series of fireworks in the sky – except that these October ones are missing the boom, smoke and ash. It is breathtaking, really.  The maples, elms, and oaks…

  • Without Faith

    Faith is quite a mystery.  We exercise it every day, yet it seems complicated. It is easy and straightforward, but at the same time hard to get a handle on.  It’s essential to life, yet not often acknowledged.  And this confusing, but simple concept just happens to be the thing that God wants from us.…

  • Ask boldly, surrender completely

    So what is so profound about this thought – to ask boldly, surrender completely?

  • My Right Arm

    Have you ever had a moment when you are reading something – say, the Bible – and an image or a word jumps out at you, vividly? (I hope it’s happened to you, because, it happened to me.  And it’s a cool experience.  Read on.) The image that impressed me was an arm.  Yes, a…

  • Lessons in Gardening: John 15

    OK, it’s mid-August. I wish my daylilies looked like this picture.  But unfortunately that is not the case.  It’s been a hot and dry summer, not a lot of rain, and much of my perennial garden reflects these inhospitable growing conditions – brown, dusty plants in the garden instead of colorful, vibrant, flowering stalks. In…

  • Whom Shall I Fear?

    After living out the book of Job, was Job able to say, in any situation, oh so confidently, without a tremor in his voice, “The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear?”

  • Living between revelations

    I have had no new revelations lately.  I love revelations – not the book of Revelation in this case, although that’s also a great read – but moments of insight when a truth unzips itself in a new way and I see it clearly.  When I first started seeking God, everything was “new”.  And even…

  • Non-traditional ways

    Tradition.  It’s what we grow up with, the blueprint handed down to us from our parents and relatives, the road map that tells us what we’re supposed to be in life. As Merriam Webster Online defines tradition: 1 a : an inherited, established, or customary pattern of thought, action, or behavior (as a religious practice…