Category Archives: Love
Paying Tribute to My Dad on His Birthday and Premiere Date of the “The Pacific”
I have always felt my Dad was a shell of a man. I always thought I didn’t have my full Dad with me – it was just a sense I had and you sure couldn’t tell that from meeting him. After the war, he still was a quiet man who loved to garden, but he held himself back from accepting love, joy and happiness. I think the war took that out of him, sadly way before I was ever born. Continue reading
Healing Hands and A Father’s Embrace
The longer I looked at the “the patriarch,” the clearer it became to me that Rembrandt had done something quite different from letting God pose as the wise old head of the family. It all began with the hands. Continue reading
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Tagged God, Nouwin, Return of the Prodigal Son
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How Do You Love? A Study of the Prodigal Son Through Rembrandt’s Eyes
ave you ever seen Rembrandt’s “Return of the Prodigal Son?” God just made me aware of it, thanks to a new bible study we are doing in Sunday School. It’s absolutely magnificent and speaks to your soul. I have never been moved like this before by observing a painting. Continue reading
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Valentine’s Day – The Importance of a Father’s Love
But, even though, we learn about our Prince through Disney classics – it is our fathers who embody them for us. They are the first men in our lives who love us – they set the bar for how we should choose our boyfriends and our PrinceCharmings. Dads are so very important to our well-being. In many ways, they are more valuable in this area than our mothers. Continue reading
Unemployed Or Is It a God Appointed Sabbatical?
So if God have given me two decades of work – and now – is giving me a decade of sabbatical rest – can I trust him in that? I know it’s God will for me to be without study employment at the moment, but I never saw it as truly a gift for him of rest. For me to get my soil rich again – to give it a breather so it can gain nutrients that have been depleted over the years. He’s ordained this. He wants me to rest. Rest in him. Trust him. Continue reading
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Tagged God's care, job search, Rest, The Bible, unemployment
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Complain, Complain, Complain
So my take away this morning was that all of my complaints really are not against a person, place or thing – they are really against God and my lack of faith that he doesn’t know what is best for me. Continue reading
To The Rescue
God is there to rescue us all. He gives us his full attention and is the first to extend his hand for he knows we need his help before we do. But, often, he’s not called upon or in my case I doubt that He can do anything. But every time I call out, He’s right there letting me know that I’m not alone in this world. Continue reading
TRUST!
For it was last night around the 3:50 a.m. hour that he woke me up to hear the following words – TRUST ME! And I heard it loud and clear. I guess he had enough of my unbelief even in my REM sleep. He wanted to silence whatever thoughts I was having and give my burdens over to him. Continue reading
Blueprints
Man, God laid everything out for Noah from size, weight, materials and content. He gave him the exact blueprints on how to build it. He even gave him the vision for it. All Noah had to do was believe it and follow it. Trust him. Be obedient. And I know that’s what God want each of us to do too. Trust his blueprints in our life. Continue reading
Looking Up
Why did it take the chiropractor to have me look toward heaven? Through exercises I have been asked to look up more – which lead me to believe that isn’t that what God has been asking me to do all the time. Why didn’t I just normally do that any way – I mean if I really want to improve my walk – is there any better way? Continue reading
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