“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour” Matt 25:13. I believe in the boy scouts–be prepared. If we are, no evil, which is common to man, would ever overtake us. I.E. my house, which is on the market, would be clean when the realtor wanted to show it. Anyone …[ read more ]

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire comes, it is a tree of life. Proverbs 13:12 Ah. The bassoon . Who could ever create a finer sound and look so cool doing so? My dream, ever since I saw it in high school concerts, was to play one. But I never got a …[ read more ]

Heb 12:15 See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.   Crawling on hands and knees, I curse (quite Christianly) the ground cover I once thought innocuous. The former owner of my home had planted it in the garden, …[ read more ]

A typical Western image of the Pentecost. Duccio di Buoninsegna (1308) Tempera on wood (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Fifty days after Easter comes the feast of Pentecost . For the Hebrews, this is the Feast of Weeks or the Feast of the Harvest. Although Israelites planted both wheat and barley at the same time, barley matured more quickly, and the Israelites reaped …[ read more ]