Monthly Archives: May 2022
Why does it seem like disaster or disappointments strike suddenly? That’s what seems to have happened a few years ago to the trainer of the newest Kentucky Derby winner when he lost twenty-three of his horses to a fire caused by lightening. He even thought it might be a sign to abandon a training career altogether. His present horse, Rich Strike, was bought at a low-level claiming race for $30,000. But not all ‘suddenly’ moments are calamitous. The morning of…..
To figure out how God possibly restored any of His cracked copies, I decided to read in Jeremiah 18 about the potter’s shop. That sort of helped. I had to do an online search on pottery making to get the gist of what Jeremiah saw. Even though one of the potter’s hands never leaves the forming clay on his wheel, the clay vessel can still become flawed and unusable. Similarly to how our Father is always there with His right…..
Five months now I’ve lived among stacks of empty boxes. Empty because in my attempt to downsize, I can’t or won’t let go of 46 years of accumulated personal belongings because of the memories attached to them. How do I discard the ‘artistic’ pictures from small grandchildren who may or may not have signed their work but even all these years later, I feel the love they put into every stroke? All the cards received over the years? The paper…..
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