Consider the Lilies

Category: Words

  • Alignment

    When I became a teacher, I needed to dive deeper into my own native tongue so I could teach it to students unfamiliar with English. I began a habit of using a dictionary to gain word knowledge and encouraged my students to do the same as they were learning new words. The definition of alignment…

  • 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 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…

  • All that I have commanded you

    The room was very quiet when the guest speaker, Dr. Chris Mitchell from Wheaton College, started to unpack what the Great Commission is about.  Matthew, in verse 20, wrote that Jesus told his disciples to teach the nations to “observe all that I have commanded you.” It is ironic that Dr. Mitchell was “preaching to…

  • Better than

    Before I start the real post, the orange asiatic lilies in my backyard are in full bloom, in their June radiance.  This means that Consider the Lilies of the Field has been in existence for a full calendar year, through every season of the lilies.  They made it to another sparkling bloom, and let’s hope…

  • Light and Momentary

    I wouldn’t put this on a resume, but I am quite good at wrapping my mind and emotions around the tough things in life. That can be a good quality.  It can also get me in a lot of trouble.  I am able to shoulder burdens that are rightfully mine to carry, and burdens that…

  • A Prayer

      Lord, High and Holy Meek and Lowly, Thou has brought me to the valley of vision, where I live in the depths but see thee in the heights; hemmed in by mountains of sin I behold Thy glory. Let me learn by paradox that the way down is the way up, that to be…

  • Meaningful or Meaningless?

    I, unlike most talk show hosts, like to make statements that are not controversial.  Statements that most people agree with.  Maybe it is because I value peace and harmony, and not conflict. So, here’s the statement that I feel works for most, if not all, people (except agnostics and atheists!). Relating to God is very…