impossible

photo © 2007 Mike Baird | more info (via: Wylio)   a hint of spring sweetness graces the cold air the river has changed since last I went this way standing on long legs sensuous neck held aloft impossible ungainly a great blue heron lunges into flight glides effortless over the water

boundaries and being unashamed

Today’s study: we are finishing up Ps 119:5-6. ==================================================== 5 Oh that my ways may be established To keep Thy statutes! 6 Then I shall not be ashamed When I look upon all Thy commandments. ==================================================== Father in heaven, we are beset daily with many tasks, many frustrations, and many fears. I feel them bearing […]

The Way of the Statute

photo © 2007 Marieke Kuijjer | more info (via: Wylio)   Ps 119 study no.3 ================================== Father, I am ignorant and distracted, pressed with many worries and concerns. I entrust them all to You now so that I can be free to be taught of You. Show me your ways in great abundance, change us […]

Ps 119:5-6 Establish my ways!

  I have a lot of studies on various verses, so periodically I want to post them here. This the start of a whole series on Ps 119. I always start with a prayer, then the verse, then a meditation and explanation of the verse. At the end there is a suggested way to go […]

Predestination Pillow Talk

photo © 2006 James Diggans | more info (via: Wylio)   “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are […]

Praxis born of Love

photo © 2007 Joe Lewis | more info (via: Wylio)   In a recent conversation on someone’s blog, which was very pleasant and congenial, the following comment came up: Personally, I would stress that what we claim to believe (concerning the resurrection, to what extent one believes the Bible is literal, et al.) means nothing […]