Pets are Family
Yesterday we attended the home owner’s orientation for us to be acquainted with the dos and don’ts in the house and lot that we bought as well as the dos and don’ts in the subdivision or community...
View ArticleToday’s Food For the Soul: Hypochondria
Have you ever had a close friend or two who suffered from hypochondria? If so, then you know that nothing at all is nearly killing them. A pathological fear has them in a tight grip. They worry that...
View ArticleKey to Old Age?
Just a front our rented house is a man at his very old age. This man’s habit actually makes me wonder how he in the world this person got into his age with his vices? Every morning this person wakes up...
View ArticleLearning Not Judging
One day, as I am in the market to buy some stuffs; foods and supplies for my babies. I accidentally hear some story of people about their lives. Every one of us has a story to tell; our daily lives,...
View ArticleOur Provider
Our hearts were filled with gladness, overflowed with joy when we finally have the money to pay for the reservation and equity. Finally we will have a place we can call our own; an answer prayer....
View ArticleRaining Bacteria
Have you entered the treasury of snow? One spring a friend trekked with a gaggle of students in the Cherokee National Forest up above the Ocoee River in eastern Tennessee. They were a good day and a...
View ArticleAbundance
My cup overflows. While out for a stroll a friend asked his wife if she noticed how plants in our tiny area of the world seem to fill in every corner and available gap during our diminutive growing...
View ArticleWheat Bread
These days, let us praise Him who creates bread possible. And such a gift it can be. It is a significant staple food. No doubt you love the particular aroma and preference of freshly baked homemade...
View ArticleBread of Life
They say that food is the fuel for life’s engine. Life’s motor simply won’t run if you don’t eat. Like most analogies, the “engine as life” analogy has a point at which it breaks down. For instance, I...
View ArticleStale Bread
Don’t you just love the taste, smell, and feel of warm, fresh out-of-the oven bread? It is so incredibly good. The temptation is to savor it as soon as it is cool enough to touch. But wait! Most...
View ArticleCounterfeit
Have you checked to see if the money in your wallet is genuine? Have you learned the look and feel of genuine currency so that you can spot a counterfeit? Those in the know estimate that, of the 1.1...
View ArticleHuge Hugs
At Andrews University the freshman biology course called Foundations of Biology has the reputation of being fairly challenging. Wait. Do I hear laughter? OK, students refer to it as a bloody killer...
View ArticleMeditation
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I muse on the work of Your hands. Ps. 143:5, NKJV. Do you select a Bible text and read it carefully, thoughtfully, praying for God’s Spirit to...
View ArticleGood Things From Meditation
The June 2010 issue of Mind, Mood and Memory, a newsletter published by Massachusetts General Hospital, carries a lead article entitled “The Neuroscience of Meditation:’ Here the author reviews...
View ArticleMagnetic Attraction
Remember these little magnetic Scottish terriers popular years ago? Less than an inch long, they were black and white plastic dogs, each standing on a small bar magnet, I see that for just a couple...
View ArticleTalking to an Idiot
Writing devotional thoughts focused on the creatures, systems, and processes that God has made is a daunting and scary task. Because God’s creations have endless variety, there is just so much to...
View ArticleRight Hand
Has anybody ever described you as dexterous, adroit, or skilled with your hands? I watch and listen in utter amazement as the flying fingers of a really skilled concert pianist blur while producing the...
View ArticleDrain Away
Buying a house is exciting it as it us a very good investment. However owning a ready-made house in subdivisions could be frustrating sometime. Frustration comes when after few months stay you discover...
View ArticleTree Planting
It is more blessed to give than to receive. Acts 20:35, NKJV. That spring it seemed as if the rain would never stop. Creeks and rivers had overflowed their banks. The floodplains were doing what they...
View ArticleThreatened Endangered Species
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is charged with watching out for threatened and endangered species. Scientists consider a plant or animal type as threatened when it is likely to become...
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