Posts Tagged ‘truth’
The Mystique of Being Unconventional
Artists are often thought to be a little peculiar, so in college I took advantage of being an Art Major to be unconventional. My clothes were splashed with my current projects: pottery mud, paint, or ink, and sometimes blood from the slip of an X-Acto knife. I generally wore the…
Read MoreDeconstructing the Lie
Most of us are very familiar with the account of the Fall of Man where Eve was deceived by the serpent into eating forbidden fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is tempting to judge her harshly for so easily believing the words of the…
Read MoreNo Black Bears
One of our boys came home from elementary school with an unusual challenge he tried out on me. He said, “I bet you can’t stand in a corner and not think about a black bear.” My immediate reaction was that was silly, because I never think about black bears unless…
Read MoreThe Unexpected Through the Unlikely
Most of us very familiar with the Christmas Story of Jesus’ incarnation marvel at what God did, and give no thought to a possible alternative story line. We have the advantage of Biblical history that specifically fulfills prophesy. But those who originally received these prophesies could only guess what the…
Read MoreThe Spark that Ignites Fires
The entire nation witnessed the tragedy of the Pacific Palisades fire that ignited on January 7, 2025. Although that was almost a year ago, residents and businesses are still trying to dig out and recover. What many lost is irrecoverable, and those familiar with the area’s former beauty are doubtful…
Read MoreToo Many Voices
I am told by friends who wear hearing aids that one of the hardest adaptations is trying to weed out superfluous sound that their brains used to automatically label “white noise,” not worthy of attention. Hearing aids magnify all sound, requiring the wearer great focus to hear a selected thing…
Read MoreSpirit Words
Words communicate thoughts, ideas, emotions, opinions, information, etc., as well as serving destructively to curse, abase, and deceive. But where do spiritual words fall? Notably, they are not so much language-based, but Source-based; meaning they originate from God regardless of the language used. Therefore, ordinary words carrying spiritual meanings are…
Read MoreGod of the Unexpected
I cannot count the times God has done something amazing an entirely different way from what I expected. In fact, this happens so often that I have begun to believe that if I’ve thought of it, that is NOT the way the Lord will do it. My propensity to err…
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