If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. John 15:10 The mistake many people make with this passage is thinking that this is how you earn his love. That’s not it at all. You can’t earn his love, for […]

TFS snuck down the chimney last night with a bag of goodies. Here’s just a sampling of the gifts I found under the tree. 🎄 ❄️❄️❄️❄️❄️ Interestingly enough, both of these gifts seem to compliment one another in a strange sort of way. Thank you Santa!🎅

The “Barbaras” Inside the Gates Cup “O” Joe the Existentialist sent me something to read the other day that stimulated a flurry of mental, emotional, and spiritual activity; this bLOG flows out of that storm. The word that jumped out and screamed in my face as I read was: “Barbarian!” I am a child of […]

When I preach of YOU do they see YOUR grace and love or do they see me? I am not a performer I’m a reflector of LIGHT! “Reflector if LIGHT!” – original Tanka by the HitchHiker. 2023.07.05

This God—his way is perfect; the word of the Lord proves true; he is a shield for all those who take refuge in him. Psalm 18:30 Godzilla in driver seat today; HitchHiker take some well deserved rest. Scripture today remind all creation, even King of Monsters, that only XLII perfect, and his TRUTH what allows […]

Closure? See these two kids? They met in the Navy, fell in love, and married in 1958; they were only twenty years old. They did no know the future awaiting them as they stood on those steps. Oh, the life they would have together. Last Saturday, our family gathered to celebrate their life and love, […]

And the Lord will be king over all the earth. On that day the Lord will be one and his name one. Zechariah 14:9 I think Dionysius of Alexandria stated (I’m paraphrasing here) that there will come a day when all of creation will see God in his full glory and his Oneness. But, in the meantime, we have to deal with contemplating […]