suddenly… Four hundred years of silence, After Micah prophesied, “To the temple suddenly will come The One in whom you take delight.” Then the silence broke in splendor, Templed Zechariah bowed aghast; God’s Gabriel suddenly appeared, Spelled out priest’s upcoming task: “In silence do your waiting, No voice to be...

Advent (time of anticipation) is coming. It begins December 3, four Sundays before Christmas. Whenever I go on a trip, I need a time of “priming” (preparation, getting ready) in order to truly anticipate what is coming. I trust these simple thoughts (over the next 3 weeks) will do that...

do… DO your life, dear daughter, Only one chance is given, To stretch to the fullest in God-formed design, Created for you in the heavens. DO your life, dear daughter, Unhampered by divisive word puzzles; Proud peoples try to pull you down, Satan’s ploy – always to muzzle. DO your...

Travelling in Israel and Jordan (The Middle East/Asia), Greece and Italy (Europe), I was awed by the multiplicity of pillars we continuously saw: Pillars, from thousands of years ago, laying on their sides along roads and in unplowed fields, broken, partial great and grand pieces, their decapitated crowns, intricately sculptured,...

     “In the beginning God...” are beautiful and profound words given undoubtedly to Moses on Mount Sinai, to remind the Israelites, as they came out of Egyptian slavery, that not a human pharaoh but the Holy God, Elohim, was their only and final Master and Lord. Though Elohim is...