Love starts with God.
Yesterday protestors showed up outside of where my son works. They clogged the street corners at the bus stop, yelling at and heckling people as they got off the bus to go to work. The protestors took up…
Love matters more than any spiritual acts of service.
Back when I was a young mom, I struggled a lot with guilt over not being able to serve God as much at my church as I felt like I was “supposed” to. There were always needs for…
Love matters more than any wisdom or knowledge.
Here you can see West Point Lighthouse. It is basically (almost) in downtown Seattle, being located on a point of land at the northern entrance to Elliott Bay. I chose to use this particular lighthouse (representing my city)…
Love is more than words
Probably the most well-known passage on love in the Bible is in Paul’s letter to the people of Corinth – the entire chapter of 1 Corinthians 13. In teaching the people of Corinth about love, what is the…
How to receive a daily blessing
Here you can see the pumpkins which I wrote about in the last blog post. The purpose of growing pumpkins is so that the pumpkins will be a “blessing” to me … meaning, I can use them to…
Are you still not ripe yet??
The month of October ushers in the season of pumpkins. Pumpkin-spice lattes appear at all the coffee shops! Pumpkin-spice candles are in all the stores. Pumpkins of every size spill out of large bins in front of grocery…
Real-Time Translation – A microphone to the world
The city in which hubby and I live is a cultural crossroads. Whenever we go shopping at Costco it is common to hear all kinds of different languages being spoken by everyone around us. People of all different…
Why the head covering??
Some things in Paul’s teaching to the people of Corinth are downright confusing. Such as this: “Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head – it is just as though her head were…
Collaboration in Construction
I shared this photo in the last blog post of the Parthenon back in the 1970’s. At that time there was not a huge flood of tourists to the area. No tickets were required to access the Acropolis. …
The foundation
After hubby and I got back from our trip to Greece, hubby’s aunt sent us this photo of the Parthenon from when his uncle was in Athens in the 1970’s. Pretty cool huh! Check out that base of…