Kitchen Duty!!

I like washing dishes. By hand. With lots and lots of hot soapy water. I don’t care if it’s just one plate, or a mountain of dishes with pans of slop. I also like using the dishwasher, though. The organizational challenge is enjoyable. Sweeping is fun too, as is mopping. Dusting is loads of fun, [...]

Christ in Pain

When the chips are down. When the rubber meets the road. When all hell breaks loose, literally. When “things don’t quite turn out.” When your life is wrecked, devastated, turned upside down. When your heart is torn into shreds and fed to the dogs. When the worst thing you could imagine… happens. How is God [...]

Prayer Vs. Bible Reading: Which is Better?

Prayer is a beautiful, amazing, powerful thing. God’s Word is an even more beautiful, amazing, powerful thing. Or is it the other way around? Or… does it make any sense either way? I don’t think it does. I often hear people extolling one or other of these glorious things over the other one, and although [...]

Eccentricity, Mathematics, and Peculiar People

I am eccentric. Quite so. In fact, almost invariably so. And I quite like it. Now, when most people notice my eccentricity (and they do), they generally comment on how weird it is, and then make some comment about fitting in or having to still be able to communicate with people or something along those [...]

A little writing… what is love?

What is love?   The first cry of a newborn child, echoing in her mother’s heart like the ripples of a new fountain, which never cease to tremor and fill her life with the simple joy that now, she is a mother.   The beauty of a rose on a hillside, the grass nestling it [...]

I Want to Forget

I have a pretty bad memory. Honest. Yes, I’ve trained it to be able to memorise things rapidly and securely, but I needed to do that because my natural memory is so bad. I’m so bad I can forget the topic of a conversation halfway through the third sentence. I’m even having a hard time [...]

Oh God

“Oh god that’s so funny!” Phrases like this, using the words “oh god” in a light and jocular fashion, are commonly seen and heard in normal conversation and in media. “Oh god…” Phrases like this one, using these words as an expression of horror, shock, terror, or awe, are also commonly encountered, especially in movies. [...]

A Short Post on Compassion

I originally wrote this as an assignment for a Reformer’s Unanimous challenge. It is quite short, but I thought y’all might like something more quick and to the point for a change. 2 Chronicles 28:1-15 1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he [...]

How do you know that’s what that means?

As said by Mark Twain – “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.“ Very true. But how ought we to be careful? Quite simple: don’t believe everything you read. Read multiple health books instead of just one, for example. Experiment, research, study. Agreeing with the first thing you hear is [...]

A Mountainous Vision

Last week I talked about a concept that I have found life-changing… a life principle that will re-energize your walk with God no matter what you are walking through – exciting or boring. This week I plan to expand on that principle a bit, or rather add upon it. I want to share with you [...]