An Eclectic Reading List Today began with a slow read of Matthew 24 and Jesus’ warning, See that no one leads you astray and Let not your love grow cold in a time of increased lawlessness. And then I thought about our present experience of lawlessness and opened...
Hyphen /ˈhīfən/ noun Definition: a symbol used to join two words together, or to show that a word has been divided into two parts at the end of one line and the beginning of the next. (Cambridge Dictionary) Amanda, a good friend, is studying Jewish/Christian relations...
Eifel, Germany This morning before breakfast, George and I watched George Verwer on Youtube. Watch George Verwer’s video about “A Garland For Ashes” He had alerted us that he would feature A Garland for Ashes in his weekly blog. And to anyone in the...
Today’s news, hate filled words,, lies and contempt, images of cruel, violent acts, wound my heart, wound each of our hearts. They evoke yearning… longing for justice, truth, goodness. Faint echoes of Johnny Cash’s song When the Man Comes Around seep into my mind. He...
“Abraham and the Three Angels” by Marc Chagall | 1966 Three Jews, connected by heritage, separated by history, linked by their responses to a radical call…to trust, to rely on their Lord. Abraham left his family, his culture not knowing his destination and look what...
The Place of Departure. Looking at the train track, Köln-Deutz railway station, April 11, 2010. Have you ever felt surrounded by inner and outer darkness and suddenly, you glimpse a light? It is both Passover and Holy Week as I write, and I’m remembering the past, the...
