Early Church History The early church believers accepted what was fully involved in declaring their allegiance to Christ. They knew what was their lot once they decided to follow Christ. They would be ostracized by their friends and familiars, disowned and disinherited by their families, penalized and persecuted by their religious leaders, and imprisoned and … Continue reading What Is Involved Once You’ve Decided to Follow Jesus
Am I seeking balance in trying to hold together everythingThat the world teaches, and inpresses me to do?Or am I focusing on abandoning and exhausting myself,Pouring out with joy my wages and my wealthIn wanton abandonment of self in worship to Him! Am I being confined to daily walk and wager,Within the narrow limits of … Continue reading Extreme and Extremity
Open fields flash by, green and brown,Soft streams go trickling by, small and big.Dusty roads leading to homes, distant and near,Blue skies canopy with clouds, white and grey! Wayside stations flash by in haste with yellow boards,Farmers and workers go about their daily chores,Highways whisk by with green and white signboards,Cocooned in cool comfort, I … Continue reading TRAVEL LORE
With covid confining the family to the home, women have found it difficult to find a place to decompress and loosen up. More than ever, women and primarily homemakers have found their realm invaded and inundated by people as well as an unending list of chores and duties.
When I receive requests to pray for people who are wasting away with specific maladies, I often feel clueless and powerless, especially when there seems to be no change.
We have programmed ourselves to concentrate building up a portfolio of life, health, finances, family, travel etc to live a comfortable 'retired life' after working very hard. We have made and set our horizon which we strive to reach and then after attaining it, wander around lost in a mist of uncertainty, not knowing what to do and end up literally wasting our days.
https://youtu.be/pa4dyeu9Cdk Morning dawnsEvening fallsSun shinesMoon beamsFlowers bloomFruits ripenGrass growsTrees swayWind blowsWaves beatBirths happenDeaths occur. Pandemic or not,Life has to gone on. For better or worse For good or bad In sickness or in health In poverty or in riches With love or hate With goodness or meanness We are all in this together. Stand fast,For … Continue reading EGGING ON
War & Peace are thus two sides of a coin, the coin of life & living, a coin we all indulge in unconsciously.
Hitherto has the Lord led us through a spar
Safe and secure inspite of many a scar
A shield in battle when the enemy rages from near or far
A tower of defense when we tire in despair
He is the banner under which I fight life's war.
We often don't understand or accept our lot in life, because we don't see our lives in the context of God's plan for all of humanity. We don't comprehend the background of the stage in which the drama of our life is being played out. We don't see the arena in which we live our lives nor do we realize the chain of things in which our lives play their part.
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