Yesterday, as I was reading Scripture, I came upon II Chronicles 13:5. In that verse is an interesting term, “covenant of salt.” I’m sure I’ve read those words before but yesterday, I took particular notice. Sometimes that happens. A verse that I must have read several times suddenly stands out. I checked out the significance […]
Dec 21, 2013
Getting Older Has Its Charms
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Rain is falling steadily on my little corner of Arkansas but that’s OK. So far, the temperature is above freezing although we do have a freezing rain/ice warning going. Believe it or not, thunder woke me last night, echoing around the heavens and bouncing off the clouds. That must have been the arriving cold air […]
Dec 12, 2013
Precious and Priceless Peace
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The older I get, the more I enjoy the blessing of peace; not just peace, mind you, but peace that comes of being free and contented and pursuing my own dreams. In school, we learned about “pax romana” or the peace that Rome imposed upon conquered nations. That is not peace at all but a seething […]
Dec 6, 2013
The Weather Outside is Frightful
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Wednesday, the weather was pretty nice. I buzzed around, taking down things in the yard I had up all summer and storing them away until next spring. Thursday? Well, Thursday was an entirely different story. An interesting thing: Our last snow occurred May 4 and our first snowfall this year occurred December 5, almost exactly […]
Nov 25, 2013
Eyes to See
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The temperature hovers at thirty degrees this morning but the snow that was forecast hasn’t arrived. Maybe later today? At least, the streets are safer with no snow on them. Has anybody seen any wooly worms lately? If the winter is to be extra wintry, isn’t the band around a wooly worm’s middle broader? My […]
Nov 10, 2013
Storms of Life
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There’s an old song that goes something like this, “When the storms of life are raging, stand by me.” Seems to me that Tennessee Ernie Ford sang that song. The words refer to the emotional, spiritual storms that we all encounter but could also be applied to the violent weather that devastates areas of our […]
