No one grows a cake right out of the ground. Jell-O doesn’t flow from the faucet, cold and firm, ready to consume with a spoon. We can’t milk ice cream from a cow.
We have to do some cooking to ...
Accounting firms used to figure their numbers in ledger books. The law required them to keep their records in order so that auditors could review them from time to time to ensure that the company was ...
Dioramas are timelines of events laid out in three-dimensional form. We stand the miniature soldiers against the stone bulwark, with their little carved weapons aimed at an equally tiny enemy. We ...
Writing on paper is very different than working on a computer. Using a keyboard, every letter is complete as written. All we must do is add in the spaces and punctuation marks, and save the final ...
It’s easy to find fault. The waiter brings the wrong soda. Our new blouse reveals a dangling thread. Our coworker offends us with country music.
Other times the complaints are bigger. The mortgage ...
A compass is a device for determining direction. We can head north, south, east, or west, or any direction in between. If we follow any of these precisely, we will eventually arrive at our ...
Light pervades our every waking hour. It sweeps through our days, touching everything around us, adding red to the apple, burnishing the sea with blue, and painting rosy cheeks on our children.
We ...
So we say we don’t believe in the afterlife. Or maybe we do, in the form of reincarnation. Maybe we expect to get our own personal heaven or hell, or simply a release from the karma we’ve built ...
Choice. We all have it, every minute of every day. Left hand or right. We choose. Even when things seem hopeless, we still have choice.
Certainly, there are times we can’t “fix” the ...
So, where is God when we call on him? Does he listen? Can we trust his promises to be there for us?
Or is it all farce? At what point do we face up to the claims of the world that say to us God is a ...
Humanists tell us life is about reality. Mathematicians look at the numbers. Scientists rant that if we can’t write something as a proof and back it up with research, it’s not valid.
Our God ...
What is a cloud? Water vapor, nothing more. Yet, these effervescent vapor trails strung across the heavens are part of our vocabulary and our culture in so many ways.
Sunsets are more beautiful when ...
We’re familiar with the Biblical attire of the faithful. We are to wear the whole armor of God. It covers us from head to foot. We are complete only when we are dressed in the coverings of ...
No one grows a cake right out of the ground. Jell-O doesn’t flow from the faucet, cold and firm, ready to consume with a spoon. We can’t milk ice cream from a cow.
We have to do some cooking to ...
Accounting firms used to figure their numbers in ledger books. The law required them to keep their records in order so that auditors could review them from time to time to ensure that the company was ...
Dioramas are timelines of events laid out in three-dimensional form. We stand the miniature soldiers against the stone bulwark, with their little carved weapons aimed at an equally tiny enemy. We ...
Writing on paper is very different than working on a computer. Using a keyboard, every letter is complete as written. All we must do is add in the spaces and punctuation marks, and save the final ...
It’s easy to find fault. The waiter brings the wrong soda. Our new blouse reveals a dangling thread. Our coworker offends us with country music.
Other times the complaints are bigger. The mortgage ...
A compass is a device for determining direction. We can head north, south, east, or west, or any direction in between. If we follow any of these precisely, we will eventually arrive at our ...
Light pervades our every waking hour. It sweeps through our days, touching everything around us, adding red to the apple, burnishing the sea with blue, and painting rosy cheeks on our children.
We ...
